ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,517, issued on March 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"DCF-assisted early warning system for edge devices" was invented by Pankaj Pande (Carlingford, Australia) and Stephen J. Todd (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes monitoring confidence scores received from an edge entity in an edge environment, and the edge entity comprises hardware and/or software, comparing a change in the confidence scores with a threshold permissible confidence score change, when a magnitude of the change is above a threshold permissible change, identifying the edge entity, or a system/devi...