US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 3 for "Controlling installation of drivers based on hardware and software components present on information technology assets" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,352, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Controlling installation of drivers based on hardware and software components present on information technology assets" was invented by John Li (Austin, Texas) and Ashutosh Singh (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to obtain monitoring data characterizing presence of hardware and software components on information technology assets, to generate a state map characterizing which of the hardware and software components were present on each information technology asset when installation of a given d...