ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,202, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for prioritizing limited resources for security management" was invented by Ian Roche (Glanmire, Ireland), Philip E. Hummel (San Jose, Calif.) and Dharmesh M. Patel (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing security management services are disclosed. To provide security management services in a manner that reduces the quantity of hardware resources necessary to provide the security management services, the security manager may prioritize security management services based on the likelihood of indi...