ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,342, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for identifying an optimal route for network performance testing" was invented by Ammara Essa (Los Angeles), Timothy E. Coyle (Chicopee, Mass.), Hector Alejandro Garcia Crespo (N Richland Hills, Texas) and Matthew Kapala (North Billerica, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive user criteria associated with a route for network performance testing of a network, network data associated with the network, and cartographic data associated with a location of the network. The device may calculate network ...