ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,086, issued on April 22, was assigned to Elisa Oyj (Helsinki).

"Management of predictive models of a communication network" was invented by Jukka-Pekka Salmenkaita (Helsinki) and Teemu Peltonen (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of managing a predictive model of a communication network, wherein the predictive model is configured to identify and correct forthcoming failures in network devices based on data collected from the network devices. The method includes allocating network devices of the communication network into first and second clusters, disabling the predictive model in the first cluster, ...