ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,381, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cox Communications Inc. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for intelligent gaming network traffic routing and optimization" was invented by Angie Hargett (Atlanta), John Na (Atlanta), Yule Lobo (Atlanta) and Devin Gill (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for intelligent gaming network traffic routing and optimization are provided. The systems and methods use a combination of different types of machine learning models to predict connection performance between a user device and a game server for various connection routes between the user device and game server. For example, ...