ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,084, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Out-of-band backplane information verification system" was invented by Nikhith Ganigarakoppal Kantharaju (Hassan, India), Sumalatha Pagadala (Bangalore, India) and Sushmitha Naik (Udupi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An out-of-band backplane information verification system includes a backplane, a BMC device coupled to the backplane, and a processing system connected to the backplane and providing an operating system. The operating system retrieves in-band backplane information from the backplane, retrieves first out-of-band backplane information f...