ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,713, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Proactively adjusting network infrastructure in response to reporting of real-time network performance" was invented by Rajan Anand (Manalapan, N.J.), Nimish Buch (Dublin, Calif.), Timothy Neville (Redmond, Wash.), Mark Cottrell (Frisco, Texas), David Lu (Irving, Texas), Eshrat Huda (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Sachin Lohe (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for proactively adjusting the infrastructure of a communications network in response to reporti...