ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,667, issued on June 24, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Identifying the user experience and SLA fulfillment impact of control applications prior to deployment" was invented by Maja Curic (Munich), Sagar Tayal (Ambala, India) and Alecio Pedro Delazari Binotto (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide a computer-implemented method that includes intercepting, using a controller of a programmable network (PN), a deployment of a control application in the PN. Responsive to intercepting the deployment of the control application, a user experience (UE) analysis is perf...