ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,823, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"On-premise machine learning model selection in a network assurance service" was invented by Andrea Di Pietro (Lausanne, Switzerland), Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Saint Martin d'uriage, France), Erwan Barry Tarik Zerhouni (Zurich, Switzerland) and Gregory Mermoud (Veyras, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a network assurance service uses a first machine-learning based model that is locally deployed to a network to assess a set of input features comprising measurements from the network. The service monitors, locally in the networ...