ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,122, issued on April 7, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for network performance evaluation" was invented by Seng Gan (Ashburn, Mass.), Andrew F Patka (Holliston, Mass.), Ronald Carloni (Bloomfield, N.J.) and Sasirekha Magudapathi (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a location associated with a network performance issue may be identified. A plurality of stationary networking devices proximal the location may be identified. Measurement data associated with wireless communication between the plurality of stationary networking devices and wireless ...