ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,477, issued on May 13, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for automatic network health check" was invented by Edgar Jesus Dorantes Loarca (Olympia, Wash.), Danyang He (Seattle), Xiangkun Dai (Lynnwood, Wash.), Oleksandr (Alex) Kadushko (Knoxville, Tenn.), Andi Mullaraj (San Jose, Calif.) and Sharath Vaddempudi (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatic network health check are disclosed herein. A method for performing an automatic health check includes determining to perform a health check on a portion of a communications network, the commun...