ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,995, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Maintenance background task regulation using feedback from instrumented waiting points" was invented by Vladimir Shveidel (Pardes-Hana, Israel) and Lior Kamran (Rishon LeZion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Regulating maintenance background (BG) task activity using instrumented waiting points (WPs) can include: collecting feedback metrics for the WPs, where each WP is instrumented to collect a set of feedback metrics including an average waiting time and a first value denoting a portion of resource requests received at the WP which are from maintenan...