US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Proactive operating system memory unit replacement based on namespace health" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,244, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Proactive operating system memory unit replacement based on namespace health" was invented by Asimuddin Kazi (Naperville, Ill.), Alejandro Reyther (Fox River Grove, Ill.), Edward James Weisbrod (Arlington Heights, Ill.) and Adam Gray (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving diagnostic data about a plurality of operating system (OS) memory units of a distributed computing system. The method further includes defining a failure state for predicting whether at least one of the plurality of OS me...