ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,711, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method and system for target dependent data dissection and application thereof" was invented by Praveenkumar Chandrasekaran (Chennai, India) and Karthik Sadhasivam (Kumbakonam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teaching relates to target dependent data dissection. A network management operation specifies a target and accordingly defines a dissection objective function (DOF) characterizing an operational aspect of a network. Combinations of features of a data set collected from the network are generated and used to dissect th...