ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,973, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Device connectivity monitoring" was invented by Niall Brady (Rathfarnham, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for device connectivity monitoring are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining data, over a time period, associated with (i) a connectivity configuration of a device and (ii) at least one set of events related to a current connectivity state of the at least one processing device, where at least a portion of the data is obtained from the device and one or mo...