ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,924, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to PLUME DESIGN INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Intelligent monitoring systems and methods for wi-fi metric-based predictions for cloud based wi-fi networks" was invented by Nipun Agarwal (Fremont, Calif.), William J. Mcfarland (Portola Valley, Calif.), Yoseph Malkin (San Jose, Calif.), Na Hyun Ha (Cupertino, Calif.), Yusuke Sakamoto (San Jose, Calif.), Sai Venkatraman (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sandeep Eyyuni (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rohit Thadani (San Carlos, Calif.) and Adam Hotchkiss (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods include obtaining Wi-Fi network data, over the Internet, associate...