ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,124, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for updating witness sleds" was invented by Michael Albert Perks (Austin, Texas), Ramesha He (Bangalore, India), Faizal Sn (Bangalore, India), Bharath Koushik Bangalore Suryanarayana (Bangalore, India), Syama Sundar Poluri (Round Rock, Texas) and Krishnaprasad Koladi (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide witness sled hardware that may be installed in a chassis and that may be updated using management resources of a chassis in which the witness sled is installed. A chassis may include data storage...