ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,457, issued on March 24, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for calculating a synthetic data error factor to simulate missing network element data" was invented by Ammara Essa (Los Angeles), Timothy E. Coyle (Chicopee, Mass.), Hector Alejandro Garcia Crespo (North Richland Hills, Texas), Matthew Kapala (North Billerica, Mass.) and Jason A. Birr (Lithia, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein relate to a method that involves identifying a set of network elements with less than a specified percentage of missing data, removing a percentage of data t...