ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,856, issued on July 7, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method of a secure virtual wireless leash at an enterprise for wireless peripheral devices" was invented by Harpreet S. Narula (Austin, Texas) and Kai Leong Wong (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A docking station for leashing a wireless peripheral device to a network of an enterprise includes a docking station hardware processor, a docking station data storage device, a docking station wireless radio to wirelessly couple the docking station to an information handling system and the wireless peripheral device. The docking station hardware ...