ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,265, issued on April 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Intelligent automated forensic agent" was invented by Chris Bunting (Carindale, Australia), Raymond Marsh (Auburn, Mass.), Eamonn Farrell (Douglas, Ireland), Bilicon Patil (Bangalore, India) and Anu Priya (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent automated forensic agent continuously monitors a processing system for errors. The intelligent automated forensic agent includes a command script database containing entries correlating error codes with command scripts. Whenever an error is identified on the processing system, the intelligen...