ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,163, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Onboarding of devices in distributed systems using wireless networks" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.), Joseph Caisse (Burlington, Mass.), Jerome A. Korthals (Round Rock, Texas) and Jenna Tartaglino (Needham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing onboarding of data processing systems are disclosed. To onboard the data processing systems, access information for wireless networks may be securely distributed to the data processing systems prior to being onboarded. The access information may be securely distribu...