ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,826, issued on June 3, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Detection of insufficient RF coverage areas in a wireless network" was invented by Wenfeng Wang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Jacob Thomas (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described that detect areas with insufficient radio frequency (RF) coverage in a wireless network. A network management system (NMS) determines one or more service level expectation (SLE) metrics for each client device in a wireless network. The SLE metrics are aggregated to each access point (AP) in the wireless network, and each AP is assigned an AP score ba...