ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,618, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using a Hidden Markov Model to calculate the probability of an underlying issue in a network monitoring system" was invented by Gad Miller (Paris) and Tristan Hugues Emile Victor Besson (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device receives, via a user interface, a selection of agents in a network. The device detects, based on data from the selection of agents, anomalies in the network. The device determines a probability of an issue in the network based on a number of the selection of agents associated with the anomalies. The devic...