ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,441, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for quantifying a network change generated by automated network events" was invented by Zachary Wozich (Casco, Maine) and Vaughne Glymph (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive key performance indicators (KPIs) associated with a network, and may rank a set of the KPIs associated with anomalous data to generate a list of ranked KPIs. The device may identify a worst performing KPI and a best performing KPI based on the list of ranked KPIs, and may join and filter the KPIs based on the worst perfo...