ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,880, issued on March 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Seamless updating and reconciliation of database identifiers generated by different agent versions" was invented by Navneet Upadhyay (Greater Noida, India), Soumen Acharya (Bangalore, India), Rejith Mohan M (Bengaluru, India), Shivaraj Abbigeri (Navalgund, India), Elango Chockalingam (Bangalore, India), Amith Ramachandran (Bangalore, India) and Pati Mohan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, the technology relates to a method for managing databases, the method includes receiving, by a data manager, an asset notification comprising a...