ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,194, issued on May 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Computer application error root cause diagnostic tool" was invented by Rachel Lemberg (Herzliya, Israel), Piyush Gupta (Sammamish, Wash.) and Akshay Ranjan Chaurasia (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed for diagnosing and mitigating errors in computer applications. One implementation facilitates determining a root cause of an error affecting a computer application. A root cause of a computer application error is efficiently determined using a set of fault profiles associated with the computer application. A ...