ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,480, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Delay reporting for network segments in an end-to-end communication path" was invented by Liangping Ma (San Diego), Nikolai Konrad Leung (San Francisco), Prashanth Haridas Hande (San Diego), Sebastian Speicher (Wallisellen, Switzerland), Xiaolong Huang (Santee, Calif.), Srinivas Katar (Fremont, Calif.) and Andrew MacKinnon Davidson (Monte Sereno, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems and methods for reporting a delay for network segments in an end-to-end communication path may include determining an end-to-end delay measurement of a communica...