ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,568, issued on May 5, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Multi-interface/protocol component management system" was invented by Chandrasekhar Mugunda (Austin, Texas), Rui An (Austin, Texas) and Shivabasava Karibasappa Komaranalli (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-interface/protocol component management system includes a BMC device coupled to each of a plurality of components by one of its plurality of communication interfaces. The BMC device identifies a subset of the components that communicate via a first transport protocol, retrieves protocol/communication interface information from each of...