ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,731, issued on May 5, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Drift detection in modular hardware systems" was invented by Mukund P. Khatri (Austin, Texas), Eugene David Cho (Austin, Texas), Milton Olavo Decarvalho Taveira (Round Rock, Texas) and Travis Gilbert (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include Information Handling Systems (IHSs) that include one or more HPMs (Host Processor Modules), each comprising one or more CPLDs (Complex Programmable Logic Devices). Each CPLD is operated through execution of firmware, and is identified by unique hardware identifiers, and is operated using...