ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,886, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Intelligent faulty component error pattern recognition and fault isolation" was invented by John Creed (Innishannon, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of intelligently recognizing faulty component error patterns to prevent cascading errors from causing indictment of healthy hardware components includes a system hardware error manager with a trained error analysis engine. The error analysis engine is trained using labeled training examples correlating storage system error patterns with component indictments and unindictable dependent components. ...