ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,468, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"LCS resource policy enforcement system" was invented by Douglas Lang Farley (Round Rock, Texas), Ethan A. Kaley (North Kingstown, R.I.), Judith Furlong (Natick, Mass.), Geoffrey A. Reid (Littleton, Mass.), John Harwood (Boston) and Gaurav Chawla (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Logically Composed System (LCS) resource policy enforcement system includes resource devices coupled to an LCS provisioning administrator device, a client system, and an orchestrator device coupled to the resource devices and the client system. The orchestrator device...