ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,943, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Dynamic device enablement" was invented by Srikanth Kondapi (Austin, Texas) and Danilo O. Tan (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic device enablement is provided. A device management application can be configured as a shell application and can be customized dynamically with plugins for devices that are connected to a computing device. The plugins can be defined within driver metadata of drivers for the devices. When the drivers are loaded, the device management application can access the driver metadata to dynamically determine which plugins ...