G06F 11/079
Root cause analysis, i.e. error or fault diagnosis
Official title: {Root cause analysis, i.e. error or fault diagnosis (in a hardware test environment G06F11/22; in a software test environment G06F11/36)}
G06F11/079 (Root cause analysis, i.e. error or fault diagnosis) appears on 4,700 US grants and 5,130 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 4,700
- Published applications
- 5,130
- Assignees
- 1,124
- Inventors
- 11,716
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 219 | 388 |
| 2026 | 233 | 260 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Multi-contextual anomaly detection6 Oct 2026US 12,754,793 B2The Bank of New York Mellon
- Intelligent logging of microservice failures6 Oct 2026US 12,754,794 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Protection in asynchronous finite state machine6 Oct 2026US 12,754,795 B2STMicroelectronics International N. V.
- Managing boot performance of an information handling system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,797 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Monitoring a multi-axis machine using interpretable time series classification6 Oct 2026US 12,754,976 B2KUKA Deutschland GmbH
- Addressing probable root causes based on logs relevant to system operation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310537 A1Dell Products L. P.
- Systems and methods for automated reverse event detection8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310538 A1
- A system and method for diagnosing and solving faults in production plants8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310539 A1Gea Procomac S.P.A.
- System and method for ai based incident impact and root cause analysis8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310540 A1BigPanda, Inc.
- System debugging8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310541 A1NVIDIA Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Creating environmental snapshots of storage device failure events528US 8,949,863 B1NetApp, Inc. · 2015
- Two-phase root cause analysis524US 7,062,683 B2BMC Software, Inc. · 2006
- Software fault management system476US 6,012,152 ATelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) · 2000
- Dynamic evocations for computer event management345US 8,689,241 B2BMC Software, Inc. · 2014
- Proactively providing corrective measures for storage arrays343US 9,384,082 B1Pure Storage, Inc. · 2016