ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,724, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"I/O path anomaly detection" was invented by Owen Martin (Hopedale, Mass.), Michael Scharland (Franklin, Mass.) and Peter Linden (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, comprising: obtaining a parsed trace log that is generated by parsing a raw trace log of a storage system, the parsed trace log identifying a first sequence of tasks that are executed as part of a same input-output (I/O) operation; classifying the first sequence of tasks by using a machine learning model, the first sequence of tasks being classified into one of a first category and...