ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,842, issued on June 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for operating a network and a corresponding network" was invented by Davide Sanvito (Heidelberg, Germany), Roberto Bifulco (Heidelberg, Germany) and Giuseppe Siracusano (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a network is provided, where an occupation level of at least one switch queue of at least one network switch is estimated. Data regarding an association between at least one path delay and a corresponding switch queue occupation level of the at least one switch queue is provided or collected. The data is fed to a machine learnin...