ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,281, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for a system control processor-controlled partitioning of bare-metal system resources" was invented by Sumedh Wasudeo Sathaye (Austin, Texas), Gaurav Chawla (Austin, Texas) and John S. Harwood (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing bare-metal (BMS) resources includes receiving, by a system control processor, a partitioning request from a system control processor manager that specify a quantity of physical partitions, in response to the partitioning request: identifying a set of physical partitions of a bare-metal sy...