ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,579, issued on March 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Measuring the performance of a wireless communications network" was invented by Yizhi Yao (Cupertino, Calif.) and Joey Chou (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example computer-implemented method, a management module receives measurement data from one or more first network modules of a wireless communications network. The measurement data pertains to at least one of establishing one or more communications sessions on the wireless communications network by the one or more first network modules, or modifying one or more communications session...