US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 17 for "Responsible incident prediction" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,805, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Responsible incident prediction" was invented by Yu Zhang (Sammamish, Wash.), Tianjun Shi (Sammamish, Wash.), Xiaoxiao Jiang (Bellevue, Wash.), Xuchao Zhang (Sammamish, Wash.), Zhenfeng Lin (Seattle), Pedro Henrique Bragioni Las-Casas (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Amitabh Nag (Redmond, Wash.) and Di Guan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed method for incident dependency prediction includes identifying, for a newly-occurring network incident of interest, one or more similar historical incidents; obtaining causal dependen...