ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,485, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Remediating impaired devices" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Beer Sheva, Israel), Boris Shpilyuck (Ashdod, Israel), Igor Dubrovsky (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Nisan Haimov (Beer Sheva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for remediating impaired devices in a deployment are disclosed. The devices may be remediated by repairing or replacing the devices. Whether to repair or replace the devices may depend on the operational and performance costs of running the impaired devices in the deployment. Operational costs may include the retail pric...