ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,452, issued on April 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Auto-recovery of known application/workflow failures" was invented by Sridharan Kuppuswamy (Bangalore, India) and Shantanu Joshi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example methodology includes, by a computing device, monitoring a status of a workflow execution and, responsive to a determination of a failure of the workflow execution, determining whether an error associated with the failure is a known error. The method also includes, responsive to a determination that the error is a known error, comparing an audit trail of the workflow exec...