ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,933, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Predictive load driven proactive pre-flight check for applications" was invented by Parminder Singh Sethi (Ludhiana, India) and Lakshmi Saroja Nalam (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable mediums storing instructions for performing a connection test prior to bringing an application on-line. The method determines a best time to perform a connection test on an application that is currently off-line and at that time performs the connection test. The conne...