ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,506, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Real-time remote system shutdown prediction" was invented by Itay Margolin (Petah Tikva, Israel), Aleksandr Kim (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Yair Horesh (Kefar-Sava, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the disclosure provide a method for detecting data collection errors by processing error data with a plurality of regression models to generate a plurality of predicted error rates over a plurality of time intervals. The method includes determining an error mode by applying a set of policy rules optimized for determining the error mode to the p...