ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,706, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Distributed system management validation" was invented by William Jeffery White (Plano, Texas), Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel) and Said Tabet (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing computer implemented services are disclosed. To provide the services, control variables may be obtained. The control variables may be used to manage operation of a system. Prior to use, trust in the control variables may be established. The requirements for establishing trust may be dynamic, and may change based on conditions impacting t...