ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,594, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Receiver performance measurement system and method thereof" was invented by Adee Ran (Maayan Baruch, Israel) and Upen Reddy Kareti (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, networks, systems, methods, and processes for determining receiver performance metric of a network device are described herein. A device may utilize one or more error patterns associated with the network device to retrieve one or more symbol errors from the one or more error patterns. The device can determine an error threshold for a segment based on a predefined B...