ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,963, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing use of data processing systems using out-of-band methods" was invented by Richard M. Tonry (Georgetown, Texas), Abeye Teshome (Austin, Texas), Mohit Arora (Frisco, Texas), Bassem El-Azzami (Austin, Texas), Vinodkumar Vasudev Ottar (Mckinney, Texas), Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes (Waxahachie, Texas), Adolfo Sandor Montero (Pflugerville, Texas) and Rajaravi Chandra Kollarapu (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing a data processing system are disclosed. A management controller of the data processing system may pro...