ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,979, issued on May 26, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated alert rationalization system to increase alert value through correlation of alerts" was invented by Anupama Jagannathan (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Karthick Rajamani (Austin, Texas), Christopher M. Dye (Encinitas, Calif.) and Benjamin Luong (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for incident management includes determining a plurality of groups of alert categories from an input of a plurality of alerts. A correlation for a pair of alert categories in at least one group from the plurality of groups of ale...