ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,038, issued on May 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automated network change system" was invented by Horia Vlad Balan (Mountain View, Calif.), Zengbin Zhang (Seattle), Amin Vahdat (Los Altos, Calif.), Vinay Kumar Bannai (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alexander Jinhon Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Anvesh Komuravelli (Santa Clara, Calif.), Steven Gribble (Mountain View, Calif.), Andrew DeBock Ferguson (New York), Muhammad Mukarram Tariq (San Jose, Calif.), Joon Ong (Cupertino, Calif.) and Alvaro Martinez Echevarria (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, for automatically changing a...