ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,979, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Authentication systems and methods using an existence confirmation result" was invented by Rajaravi Chandra Kollarapu (Allen, Texas), Abeye Teshome (Austin, Texas), Mohit Arora (Frisco, Texas), Richard M. Tonry (Georgetown, Texas), Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes (Waxahachie, Texas), Bassem El-Azzami (Austin, Texas), Vinodkumar Vasudev Ottar (McKinney, Texas), Adolfo Sandor Montero (Pflugerville, Texas) and Gokul Thiruchengode Vajravel (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing operations of a data processing system are dis...