ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,499, issued on April 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing a data processing system using a management controller and a secured storage region" was invented by Abeye Teshome (Austin, Texas), Richard M. Tonry (Georgetown, Texas), Bassem El-Azzami (Austin, Texas), Mohit Arora (Frisco, Texas), Vinodkumar Vasudev Ottar (McKinney, Texas), Adolfo Sandor Montero (Pflugerville, Texas), Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes (Waxahachie, Texas) and Rajaravi Chandra Kollarapu (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing operation of a data processing system are disclosed. To manage the data ...