ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,878, issued on May 20, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multi-modal monitoring of links between multiple points" was invented by Robert Lynch (Bedminster, N.J.), Hyman David Chantz (Scarsdale, N.Y.) and Elijah Swift (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Links between multiple points are monitored. A determination is made that there is a change in power on a link being monitored. Based on determining that there is the change in the power on the link, latency on the link is checked and an anomaly on the link is detected. Based on detecting that there is the anomaly on the link, a deter...