ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,216, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NetScout Systems Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for network anomaly detection and policy-based network state restoration" was invented by Steinthor Bjarnason (Fjerdingby, Norway) and Roland Dobbins (Sarasota, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for network anomaly detection and policy-based network state restoration includes collecting a first set of metrics associated with a network at a first time indicating a first state of the network and storing the first set of metrics in association with the first state in a memory at the first time. A second set of metrics associa...