ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,241, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for access control to and management of diagnostic data" was invented by Dharmesh M. Patel (Round Rock, Texas), Prem Pradeep Motgi (Austin, Texas) and Manpreet Singh Sokhi (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing collection of diagnostic data are disclosed. To collect diagnostic data, unmanaged devices may be used. The unmanaged devices may be registered with a data management system. During the registration process, procedures for processing diagnostic data from the unmanaged devices may be est...