ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,699, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SELECTOR SOFTWARE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for efficient storage and querying of communication network parameters" was invented by Sunanda Kommula (Cupertino, Calif.), Sirish A. Kondi (Milpitas, Calif.) and Santosh Pallagatti Kotrabasappa (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure pertains to computer-assisted methods, apparatus, and systems for efficiently monitoring and storing the state of large-scale communication networks and tracing packet routes through such networks."

The patent was filed on July 26, 2024, under Application No. 18/785,492....