ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,046, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Automated inspection of network state" was invented by Raymond E. Reeves (Orlando, Fla.), Jorge Climaco Toledo (Kansas City, Kan.), Henry Rico Olivas (Somerton, Ariz.) and Hector M. Rodriguez Riego (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices that relate to an inspection system deployed in a core network. The inspection system includes one or more inspection agent nodes located close to an edge of the core network configured to generate one or more network reports based on information from one or more access nodes. An inspection manag...