ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,244, issued on June 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Device management based on degradation and workload" was invented by Parminder Singh Sethi (Ludhiana, India), Lakshmi Saroja Nalam (Bangalore, India) and Vasanth Sathyanarayanan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises generating a plurality of device trees for respective ones of a plurality of devices. The plurality of device trees respectively comprise a plurality of nodes corresponding to a device, one or more components of the device and one or more alerts associated with the one or more components. In the method, weights are...