US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 23 for "Proximity boot control using light-based communications" (American, Israeli, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,996, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Proximity boot control using light-based communications" was invented by Shree Rathinasamy (Round Rock, Texas), Padmanabhan Narayanan (Chennai, India) and Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for proximity boot control using light-based communications are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes maintaining information associated with at least one device, where the maintained information identifies at least one designated location for the at least one ...