ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,884, issued on July 15, was assigned to Innovative Defense Technologies LLC (Arlington, Va.).

"Edge analytics for predicting software failures" was invented by Bernard Gauf (Vienna, Va.), Apostolos Topalis (Mullica Hill, N.J.) and Keith Harriman (Newtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a novel approach of predicting software failures while executing in an operational or production environment. The innovative method and system provides analytic capabilities that monitor a system and input conditions and further provides a prediction mechanism to anticipate a software failure an...