ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,817, issued on June 23, was assigned to OVH (Roubaix, France).

"Systems and methods for mapping device failures in a network" was invented by Florent Delayen (Roubaix, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a method and system for identifying the effects of an item failing in a network. Information about a first item in a network is received. The information indicates that the first item provides a service to other items in the network. A graph of the network is retrieved. A node in the graph that corresponds to the first item is identified. Edges are added to the graph to connect the node of the first item to nodes...