ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,853, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method, electronic device, and computer program product for setting feature flags" was invented by Shufang Meng (Shanghai), Dazhi Dong (Shanghai), Tianping Liu (Shanghai) and Guoqiang Ma (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for setting feature flags involve generating a target feature flag file with a predetermined data format, the target feature flag file indicating a name and a target state of a target feature. Such techniques further involve generating a feature state query library of the target feature flag by converting the target featu...