ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,671, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Network quality evaluation based on network metrics" was invented by Arman Ghasemi (Weatogue, Conn.) and Milad Mostavi (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for evaluating performance of a Passive Optical Network (PON), include: obtaining a plurality of network performance metrics for an optical network terminal (ONT) for a customer in the PON, the PON including an optical line terminal (OLT) optically connected to a plurality of optical network terminals (ONTs) via a plurality of optical fibers; analyzing each of the plurali...