ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,912, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for host responsiveness monitoring for low-latency, low-loss, scalable-throughput services" was invented by Ravi Potluri (Coppell, Texas), Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, Texas) and Violeta Cakulev (Milburn, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a first core network device may transmit, to a second core network device may, a host responsiveness monitoring request, wherein the host responsiveness monitoring request indicates at least one host responsiveness parameter associated with a host devi...