ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,913, issued on June 16, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for capacitive information handling system housing and perimeter sensors" was invented by Rachid M. Alameh (Crystal Lake, Ill.), Jarrett Simerson (Northbrook, Ill.), Daniel L. Hamlin (Round Rock, Texas), Jace W. Files (Round Rock, Texas) and Gerald Rene Pelissier (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to detect user presence near and capacitive touch of a user at an exterior chassis housing of an information handling system that includes a hardware processor, a data storage device, and a power management u...