ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,585, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Proactive input-output failover based on predicting optical transceiver module hardware failures in host bus adapter" was invented by Vinayak Karne (Hyderabad, India), Yadagiri Rajaboina (Hyderabad, India), Phani Kumar V. U. Ayyagari (Hyderabad, India), Venkateshwar R. Yerravalli (Hyderabad, India) and Samyuktha Pantham (Rajanna Sircilla, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for performing proactive input-output (IO) failover based on predicting optical transceiver module hardware failures in a host bus adapter (HBA) are...