ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,849, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Houston).

"Dynamic authentication for local accounts based on security information and event management systems" was invented by Senthil Ponnuswamy (San Jose, Calif.) and Kiran Kumar Malle Gowda (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to a method managing accounts in a cluster. The method includes identifying, by an alert manager, an account login alert associated with an account and a node of a cluster, wherein the cluster comprises a plurality of nodes, wherein the node is one of the plurality of nodes; in response to the identific...