ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,170, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SELECTOR SOFTWARE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for network tracing, forecasting, and capacity planning" was invented by Sunanda Kommula (Cupertino, Calif.), Nitin Kumar (Fremont, 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 forecasting network performance responsive to network reconfigurations in large scale communication networks."

The patent was filed on March 8, 2024, under Application No. 18/600,223.

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