ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,611, issued on July 8, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"System, method, and computer program product for diagnosing faulty components in networked computer systems" was invented by Yi Shen (Fremont, Calif.), Sangram Pattanaik (Hayward, Calif.) and Trinath B. Anaparthi (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are a system, method, and computer program product for diagnosing faulty components in networked computer systems. The method includes generating a graph of a network topology of a networked computer system and determining a set of nodes of the graph affected by a fault in...