ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,437, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Distributed data collection across multiple nodes" was invented by Balasingh Samuel (Round Rock, Texas), Nikhil Vichare (Austin, Texas) and Farzad Khosrowpour (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote compute device stores a first workgroup table. The first workgroup table identifies similarly profiled information handling systems for a first workgroup. A processor receives a telemetry data request from an application and determines a plurality of data sets within the telemetry data request. The processor determines a distribution of the...