ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,872, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Migration of docking profiles for information handling systems" was invented by Trent A. Buys (Seattle), Kearson M. McNulty (Austin, Texas) and Cherian Samuel Mathews (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods support docking of an Information Handling System (IHS) to a docking station. A docking connection is detected from the IHS to a docking station that provides use of peripheral devices that are coupled to the docking station. However, the docking station is determined to be unrecognized such that it is not associated with a ...