ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,246, issued on June 16, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"User equipment impact estimation and remediation" was invented by Farid Khafizov (Plano, Texas) and Artur Safin (Conroe, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for estimating the impact of communication device failures of a communication network are provided. Energy consumption data over a time interval of when an alarm of a communication device failure occurred is evaluated to identify change points relating to threshold changes in energy consumption by user equipment. The change poin...