ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,677, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Edgewater Networks Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Monitoring data link health using connectionless loops over redundant IP networks" was invented by Mark J. Conner (Henderson, Nev.), Brian M. Quigley (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Michael P. Reiman (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, systems, and computer-readable media for using connectionless loops for monitoring data link health using connectionless loops over redundant Internet Protocol (IP) networks are described herein. One system includes an IP network device connected to a device used by a party to communicate with ...