ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,686, issued on March 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Graph embeddings for drift identification" was invented by Vinay Sawal (Fremont, Calif.), Jason Liu (Wellesley, Mass.), Chris Atkinson (Woodstock, Ga.), Kirk Frey (Fleminton, N.J.), Elie Antoun Jreij (Pflugerville, Texas), Amihai Savir (Newton, Mass.) and Jacob R. Hutcheson (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can create a first graph that represents first values of current configurations of a computer hardware as first nodes and first dependencies of the current configurations as first links. The system can create first embedding v...