ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,587, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Object level space forecasting" was invented by Shanand Reddy (Kulim, Malaysia), Chew Chien Wern (Penang, Malaysia) and Choo Lead Ta (Puchong, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus and processor-readable storage media for object level space forecasting are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes determining a predicted growth of an object in a database using a non-linear regression model, wherein the non-linear regression model is trained using a set of data records indicative of a size of the object over tim...