ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,878, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Network impact prediction and simulation" was invented by Ahmed Abdelaziz (Tokyo), Ziya Akhundov (Tokyo), Ahmed Tasnim (Tokyo), Arun Goyal (Tokyo) and Pradeep Kumar (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of simulating an effect on a network in response to a network-related event. The method can include receiving data with respect to a plurality of nodes within a network and generating a network graph with respect to each of the nodes within the network. In addition, the method can include calculating a first value based on network traf...