ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,160, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for networked device testing" was invented by Kshitij Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.) and Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for networked device testing are disclosed. An example method includes determining an input to be applied to a programmable network device, mutating the input to determine an input variant, applying the input variant to the programmable network device, and in response to determining that the input variant causes the programmable network ...