ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,904, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing use of hardware bundles in production environments" was invented by Lucas A. Wilson (Cedar Park, Texas) and Dharmesh M. Patel (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for providing for providing computer implemented services using managed systems are disclosed. To provide the computer implemented services, hardware components may be bundled into hardware bundles. The hardware bundles may be used to satisfy subscriptions for the services, and limit use of the hardware bundles when subscription limits are reach...