ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,893, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Device onboarding in distributed systems" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.), Joseph Caisse (Burlington, Mass.), James Daniel Harms (Worthington, Ohio) and John Jian Li (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing endpoint devices are disclosed. The endpoint devices may be managed by onboarding them. To onboard the endpoint devices, ownership vouchers may be configured by a current owner of the endpoint device to include configuration policies when the endpoint device is being transferred from the current ...