ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,841, issued on July 15, was assigned to MORGAN STANLEY SERVICES GROUP INC. (New York).

"Proactive stability engine for software systems" was invented by Christopher D. Clarke (Lake Hopatcong, N.J.), William M. O'Dwyer (Huntington, N.Y.) and Nicholas C. Drewanz (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system for averting possible disruptions to at least one software service is described. The method includes querying the data storage to identify a prevalence of errors associated with a particular software component or hardware component; supplementing identified errors with upstream and downstrea...