US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 8 for "Localization of network failures" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,445, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Localization of network failures" was invented by Yang Zheng (Kirkland, Wash.), Denizcan Billor (Seattle), Tristan Naoki Struthers (Seattle), Jamie D. Gaudette (Kirkland, Wash.) and Surinder Hari (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, implemented at a computer system in a network, for localizing network failure in the network includes enumerating at least one path between the computer system and a path destination node in the network through one or more intermediary nodes. The method further includes enumerating a plurali...