ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,887, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).

"Detection of network measurement inaccuracies" was invented by Marcus Jan Friman (Lulea, Sweden) and Fredrik Anders Kers (Lulea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes techniques for detecting network measurement inaccuracies through the detection of sender delays or packet drops. For example, a sender device of a test packet may determine whether the sender device is experiencing any issues in sending the test packet to a receiver device and notify a controller of the issues such that the controller may generate an i...