ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,285, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Telecom Italia S.p.A. (Milan).

"Telecommunication network alarm management" was invented by Pino Castrogiovanni (Turin, Italy), Roberta Giannantonio (Turin, Italy), Ennio Grasso (Turin, Italy) and Pier Giorgio Santandrea (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing network alarms generated by element manager modules responsive to corresponding faults/malfunctioning affecting network nodes or links of a telecommunication network is provided. The system may include an alarm management platform for gathering network alarms and generating a first set of network alarms compri...