ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,249, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for visually identifying equipment in a data center" was invented by Kannan Karuppiah (Fremont, Calif.) and Shree Rathinasamy (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system may include a processor and a flag assembly comprising a flag and an actuator mechanically coupled to the flag and communicatively coupled to the processor, and configured to receive control signals from the processor to mechanically translate the flag between an activated position in which the flag is visually perceptible to a user ...