ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,444, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"LCS life-cycle management system" was invented by Douglas Lang Farley (Round Rock, Texas), Ethan A. Kaley (North Kingstown, R.I.), Geoffrey A. Reid (Littleton, Mass.), Gaurav Chawla (Austin, Texas) and John Harwood (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Logically Composed System (LCS) life-cycle management system includes an orchestrator device coupled to resource devices. The orchestrator device configures the resource devices to provide an LCS to a client device. The orchestrator device also identifies interdependencies between the resource devices and...