ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,415, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Service health assessment" was invented by Kalpesh Sharma (Bangalore, India), Muniyandi Perumal Thevar (Madurai, India), Shaleen Tongia (Bangalore, India) and Nalini M (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, in accordance with one embodiment, includes receiving a taxonomy specifying entities of a business service and levels of said entities. Time series data about the entities is collected and stored. Impactor propagation paths between entities is identified. A territory of a health impact of each entity is also identified. A healt...