ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,728, issued on April 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method to identify and improve connection issues" was invented by Parminder Singh Sethi (Ludhiana, India) and Lakshmi Saroja Nalam (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing enhanced reliability for data streams includes identifying an upgrade request sent by a client device to an upgrade node. The method also includes monitoring a response to the upgrade request from the upgrade node to the client device. The method further includes determining that the response is indicative of a connection issue between the client...