US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 11 for "Managing data processing systems by monitoring for failure" (North Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,682, issued on March 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing data processing systems by monitoring for failure" was invented by Sudhir Vittal Shetty (Cedar Park, Texas) and Deepak Nagarajegowda (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing data processing systems are disclosed. Data processing systems may be managed by monitoring for failure of a storage device. The storage device may be monitored by obtaining use data and diagnostic data for a storage device. The use data may be obtained to generate predicted future use data. The use data and the predicted future use data...