ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,191, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for detection of, prevention of, and recovery from software execution failure" was invented by Todd Kulick (Mountain View, Calif.) and Igor Pichkov (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed herein for monitoring, detecting, and mitigating hardware and software failures. An error detection module monitors the execution of software processes and detects failures of the monitored processes. The error detection module may monitor reboot events and correlate reboot events with failures of the mon...