US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 17 for "Proactive reservation of field replaceable units using predictive failure analysis and analytics" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,602, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Proactive reservation of field replaceable units using predictive failure analysis and analytics" was invented by Rashmi Chandra (Santa Clara, Calif.), Beth Ann Peterson (Tucson, Ariz.), Matthew G. Borlick (Tucson, Ariz.) and Lokesh Mohan Gupta (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computational device determines whether a generated system event in the computational device is a critical error or a non-critical error. In response to determining that the generated system event is a critical error caused by a first field-replaceable ...