ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,130, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Predicting device components for repair and/or replacement using artificial intelligence techniques" was invented by Jeffrey S. Vah (Round Rock, Texas), Ravi Shukla (Whitefield, India), Romulo Teixeira De Abreu Pinho (Niteroi, Brazil), Adriana B. Prado (Niteroi, Brazil), Aaron Sanchez (Austin, Texas), Bharathi Raja Kalyanasundaram (Dharmapuri, India) and Edward Fraser (Newport, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for predicting device components for repair and/or replacement using artificial intel...