ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,192, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Leveraging health statuses of dependency instances to analyze outage root cause" was invented by Sarit Pinahs (Ramat Gan, Israel), Izhak Mashiah (Qirya Ono, Israel), Offek Anker (Raanana, Israel), Liron Mid (Holon, Israel), Yosef Asaf Levi (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tamar Agmon (Ramat Gan, Israel), Muhamed awad Mhameed (Zalafe, Israel) and Idan Agam (Tel Yitzhak, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods determining a root cause of an outage of a dependent service. A method includes detect...