ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,866, issued on March 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Identification of an undesirable software image" was invented by Roman Bober (Ashdod, Israel), Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel) and Stav Sapir (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing operation of edge devices that host software objects are disclosed. The operation of the edge devices may be managed by monitoring the software objects. The software objects may be monitored by managing vulnerabilities of an undesirable software image on which a portion of software objects is based. The vulnerabilities of the undesira...