ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,560, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Smart image preparation for secure workspaces" was invented by Gokul Thiruchengode Vajravel (Bangalore, India), Ramanujam Kaniyar Venkatesh (Bangalore, India) and Jyothi Bandakka (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Smart image preparation is provided for secure workspaces. When an administrator requests deployment of an application to a user computing device, a management service can be configured to interface with an orchestrator service to install the application in a virtual machine on an orchestrator and then create an image of the virtual...