ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,968, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Providing transparency in language model-based network troubleshooting systems" was invented by Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France), Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland), Pierre-Andre Savalle (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Eduard Schornig (Haarlem, Netherlands) and Gregoire Magendie (Lamorlaye, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a device receives an output of a language model-based troubleshooting agent to perform a task with respect to a computer network. The device determines a level of quality of the output. The device ...