ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,628, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Privilege-free chaos engine" was invented by Rajiv Popat (Kolkata, India) and Irfan Gilani (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A privilege-free chaos engine testing environment is provided. A reverse proxy provided on a communication line between a first resource and a plurality of second resources intercepts communications from the first source intended for the plurality of second resources. Mirror communications (URLs) of the first communication and generated. A chaos scenario is selectively injected into the mirror communication according ...