US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 31 for "Analyzing risk for devices within a managed environment" (Texas, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,689, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Analyzing risk for devices within a managed environment" was invented by Karunakar Palicherla Reddy (Austin, Texas), Charles D. Robison (Buford, Ga.) and Michael S. Gatson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for analyzing risk for devices within a managed environment are described. One example method includes receiving a provisioning request from a device including a device identifier, device credentials, and a current firmware revision, wherein the provisioning request indicates that the device is newly connected to the managed envi...