ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,972, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Utopus Insights Inc. (Valhalla, N.Y.).

"Network management based on modeling of cascading effect of failure" was invented by Aanchal Aggarwal (White Plains, N.Y.), Younghun Kim (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Tarun Kumar (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Mark A. Lavin (Katonah, N.Y.), Giuliano Andrea Pagani (Groningen, Netherlands) and Abhishek Raman (Mahopac, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of managing a network with assets are described. The method includes generating a directed graph with each of the assets represented as a node, determining individual failure probability of each node, computi...