ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,355, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Distributed management of blueprints" was invented by Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel) and Shree Rathinasamy (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing operation of a deployment are disclosed. The operation may be managed by securing a blueprint using a consensus from stakeholder devices. The consensus may be obtained by sending, by the stakeholder devices, shares of a secret key to an edge management system. The secret key may be used to decrypt an encrypted copy of the blueprint. A sufficient quantity of the shares ...