ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,954, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"System and method for diagnosis and suppression of root causes of performance requirement failure in a network" was invented by Vishvesh Trivedi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method provide for identification, diagnosis, and suppression of performance requirement failure in a network. Portions of the network are evaluated to detect a collective failure of the portion to meet a predefined performance requirement. The portion can then be iteratively divided and each subportion similarly evaluated, until a root cause portion of the initially-detec...