ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,279, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for guided deployment of managed systems" was invented by Vinay Sawal (Fremont, Calif.), Sithiqu Shahul Hameed (Chennai, India) and Udhaya Chandran Shanmugam (Santa Clara, Calif.).

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, the managed systems may be deployed to a location and operate in a predetermined manner conducive to, for example, execution of applications that provide the computer implemente...