US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on June 16 for "Passive speed estimation for fixed and mobile devices" (Pennsylvania, Texas, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,773, issued on June 16, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Passive speed estimation for fixed and mobile devices" was invented by Zainab Ababri (Dallas), Ratul K. Guha (Warwick, Pa.) and Abhitabh Kushwaha (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: monitoring, by a processor, a network to extract data packets transferred over fixed time intervals; filtering, by the processor, the extracted data packets to identify data transfers exceeding a predefined size threshold; aggregating, by the processor, the identifi...