ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,210, issued on June 9, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detecting cloud service connectivity issues through analysis of tenant network traffic signals" was invented by Yingnong Dang (Sammamish, Wash.), Yuxuan Chen (Bellevue, Wash.), Youjiang Wu (Seattle), Zhangwei Xu (Redmond, Wash.), Nathaniel Elliott Brown (Atlanta) and Udaivir Yadav (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques describe effective detection of network connectivity issues for a cloud service operating in a distributed computing environment. To detect the network connectivity issues, a system first projects network t...