ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,085, issued on April 22, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Systems and methods for modeling and optimizing a telecommunications network" was invented by Daniel Wilson (Annapolis, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include systems, methods, computing devices, computer-implemented methods, and the like for modeling and/or simulating performance of a telecommunications network during one or more failure scenarios that reduces computational time and/or power over previous simulation techniques. Modeling and simulating the network may include generating an initial network mod...