ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,157, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Power supply-based communication for detection of a lack of redundancy in power that has been supplied to a system" was invented by Anton Rang (Houlton, Wis.) and Jonathan Walton (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for power supply-based communication for detection of a lack of redundancy in power that has been supplied to a system are presented herein. A system generates first identification data to be transmitted from the system via a power connection between the system and a power source, in which the first identification data references...