ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,276, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic registration of software components for diagnosis of root cause of failure" was invented by John Charles Shebey III (Highland, N.Y.), Laura Sperling (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Walter A. Manrique (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Madhana Sunder (Meridian, Idaho), James A. O'Connor (Ulster Park, N.Y.), Robert M. Abrams (Wappinger Falls, N.Y.) and Ralph Sharpe (Newburgh, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic registration of software components for root cause of failure diagnosis may include determining a start of execution of a thread associate...