ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,714, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SELECTOR SOFTWARE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for determining a path that a data packet would traverse through a communication network at a time of interest" was invented by Sunanda Kommula (Cupertino, Calif.), Nitin Kumar (Fremont, Calif.) and Kannan Kothandaraman (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure pertains to computer assisted methods, apparatus, and systems for determining a path that a data packet would have traversed through a communication network at a particular point in time, which may be used, for instance, to determine the sources o...