ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,116, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Smart infrastructure orchestration and management" was invented by Ravikanth Chaganti (Bangalore, India), Dharmesh M. Patel (Round Rock, Texas) and Rizwan Ali (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing service deployment are disclosed. To deploy services, dependencies and other characteristics (such as context data, capability data, placement rules, and workflow data) of services and the infrastructure boundaries in which the services are running may be dynamically collected, analyzed and updated. By dynamically anal...