ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,661, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Generation of activity profiles limiting utilization of information technology assets" was invented by Tomer Shachar (Beer-Sheva, Israel), Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel) and Ophir Buchman (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for generation of activity profiles limiting utilization of information technology (IT) assets. One method comprises monitoring users interacting with IT assets to obtain logged data; determining a threshold based on a designated restriction level for the IT assets; processing the logged data based...