ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,452, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Integrating clustered network orchestrator with host configuration protocols" was invented by Alexander Bahm (Renton, Wash.), Melody Grappo (Seattle) and Jason Tea (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integration of a clustered network orchestrator with host configuration protocols in a distributed node network system can be performed and managed. Respective nodes of the node network can generate, and store in a data store, respective network configuration reports (NCRs) based on respective portions of network configuration-related information r...