ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,887, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Long duration asynchronous transaction monitoring of distributed systems" was invented by Ching-Yun Chao (Austin, Texas), Kay Hewett (Miami Beach, Fla.), William Corlett (Tampa, Fla.), Nikhil Shingte (Alpharetta, Ga.), Oluwadamilola Okuneye (Severn, Md.) and Susmitha Pillarisetty (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center management and monitoring operation. The data center management and monitoring operation includes: identifying a plurality of transaction components within ...