ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,632, issued on July 22.

"System and method for root cause analysis in a computer network" was invented by Kamakshi Sridhar (Plano, Texas), Seshu Dommaraju (Allen, Texas), Lyndon Wayne Cantor (Prosper, Texas), Kris Kobernat (Allen, Texas), Alexander Havang (Malmo, Sweden) and Ambuj Mittal (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for root cause analysis in a computer network. The method includes: determining a degradation of QoE for at least one traffic flow of at least one user; determining a traffic pattern associated with the degradation of the QoE; determining a root cause for the degradation based on th...