ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,801, issued on June 3, was assigned to MOBILE SONIC INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Public wireless network performance management system with mobile device data collection agents" was invented by Christian E. Hofstaedter (Hellertown, Pa.), Reyes Canales III (Kirkland, Wash.), Edward Goziker (Redmond, Wash.), James S. Simpkins (Issaquah, Wash.), Fernando Garcia-Duarte (Seattle), Julia Renouard (Shoreline, Wash.), Joseph T. Savarese (Edmonds, Wash.), Mark V. Kimmerly (Kirkland, Wash.), Zhenwu Wang (Seattle), John Dangov (Seattle), Paul L. Hoover (Seattle) and Michael L. Snyder (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller coupled to p...