ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,229, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"System and method for applying service topology to quantifying network health metrics" was invented by Mehmet Toy (Allendale, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application may be hosted on a device. The application may be configured to: receive a selection of a health metric and a selection of a service topology associated with a service provided by a network to a to a subscriber device; receive configuration information for evaluating the selected health metric for the service topology; receive monitored health information from a n...