ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,968, issued on July 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Detection and removal of stale data exclusion windows" was invented by Lisa O'Mahony (Cork, Ireland), Francisco Jaen (Cork, Ireland) and Jason McCarthy (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example methodology includes, by a computing device, determining a recurring time period during which performance data breaches a performance data threshold and applying a data exclusion window on the recurring time period, wherein performance data within the data exclusion window are excluded from system performance calculations. The method also includes,...