ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,658, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Method and apparatus for providing network experience testing" was invented by Ryan Stone (Charlotte, N.C.), Brian Rudloff (Sattelite Beach, Fla.) and Blane Rockafellow (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of obtaining qualitative information regarding network capabilities includes determining network identification information for an access network of a user responsive to receipt of a request from a user device to detect the access network of the user, determining network parameters for the access network, performing one or more add...