ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,987, issued on July 15, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Access point health metrics" was invented by Wesley Purvis (Yardley, Pa.) and Jisheng Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network management system (NMS) configured to attribute a health issue of an access point (AP) to a classifier or sub-classifier and remedy the health affecting a user's experience. The NMS obtains network data associated with an AP device of a site. The NMS also determines whether the network data satisfies one or more criteria corresponding to a classifier of a service level expectation (SLE) metric for deter...