ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,952, issued on March 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for managing data processing systems and hosted devices" was invented by Chandrasekhar Mugunda (Austin, Texas), Rui An (Austin, Texas) and Akshata Sheshagiri Naik (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing operation of data processing systems are disclosed. To manage operation of the data processing systems, the data processing systems may present a communication and credential management system. The communication and credential management system may be used to manage the operation of any number of dev...