ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,369, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Traffic identification using machine learning" was invented by Gaurang Naik (San Diego), Sai Yiu Duncan Ho (San Diego), George Cherian (San Diego), Yanjun Sun (San Diego), Abhishek Pramod Patil (San Diego), Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego), Abdel Karim Ajami (Lakeside, Calif.), Xiaolong Huang (Santee, Calif.), Qiang Fan (Plainsboro, N.J.), Srinivas Katar (Fremont, Calif.), Nitin Ravinder (San Diego), Venkata Savitri Pravallika Tallapragada (San Diego), Varshini Rajesh (New York) and Raamkumar Balamurthi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devic...