ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,438, issued on March 24, was assigned to Promptlink Communications Inc. (Oceanside, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for network analysis" was invented by Foad Towfiq (Vista, Calif.) and Alexander Podarevsky (Oceanside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques for analyzing data networks with impaired network components, recording network telemetry data and labeling the information for use in training one or more machine learning algorithms is described. The machine learning algorithms trained in this way are used to detect impaired network components and/or noise on operational data networks."

The patent was filed o...