US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 15 for "Characterization and use of hardware bundles" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,426, issued on April 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Characterization and use of hardware bundles" was invented by Lucas A. Wilson (Cedar Park, Texas) and Dharmesh M. Patel (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer implemented services using managed systems are disclosed. To provide the computer implemented services, hardware components may be bundled into hardware bundles. The hardware bundles may be used to satisfy subscriptions for the services, and limit use of the hardware bundles when subscription limits are reached. The hardware bundles may ...