ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,873, issued on March 24, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"System, method, and medium for network drive testing via self-driving vehicle" was invented by Ahmed Darwish (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trigger associated with a network event is received. Based on the received trigger, a location associated with the network event is mapped. Computer navigation instructions are generated, based on the received trigger and location, to be used by a self-driving vehicle to collect network data associated with the network event. A self-driving vehicle is selected among a plurality of self-driving vehicles and deployed...