ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,551, issued on June 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing device personality at an information handling system" was invented by Lee E. Ballard (Georgetown, Texas), Deepaganesh Paulraj (Bangalore, India) and Jonathan Foster Lewis (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing device personality, including performing an inventory analysis of devices at an information handling system, including identifying a current personality file associated with a particular device; receiving data indicating a group of personality files; receiving user input indicating a selection of a particular personality ...