ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,283, issued on May 13, was assigned to Promptlink Communications Inc. (Oceanside, Calif.).

"Noise detection and localization" was invented by Foad Towfiq (Oceanside, Calif.), Ivan Kyryliuk (Kyiv, Ukraine), Alexander Podarevsky (Oceanside, Calif.), Iurii Zhuk (Cherkasy, Ukraine), Antonin Shtikhlaytner (Kiev, Ukraine) and Andriy Zhuravlov (Kiev, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques include detecting noise in a network, identifying the type of noise in the network, localizing noise in the network, determining noise scores for network devices, and/or determining likelihoods that particular devices are causing noise a...