ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,907, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Tracking detection for data processing systems using out-of-band methods" was invented by Mohit Arora (Frisco, Texas), Abeye Teshome (Austin, Texas), Richard M. Tonry (Georgetown, Texas), Bassem El-Azzami (Austin, Texas), Vinodkumar Vasudev Ottar (McKinney, Texas), Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes (Waxahachie, Texas), Adolfo Sandor Montero (Pflugerville, Texas) and Rajaravi Chandra Kollarapu (Allen, Texas).

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