ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,060, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for mitigating errors tied to software applications" was invented by Madhusudan Rao (Dublin, Calif.), Kenneth I. Cohen (San Francisco), Nora J. Shoemaker (Mountain View, Calif.) and Victoria L. Shurman (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a technique for mitigating errors tied to software applications. According to some embodiments, the technique can be implemented by a server device, and include the steps of (1) identifying at least one error associated with a user of a software application, (2) identifying at least...