ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,408, issued on July 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Identifying the health state of edge devices" was invented by Boris Shpilyuck (Ashdod, Israel), Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel), Nisan Haimov (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Igor Dubrovsky (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing operation of a distributed system comprising a data center and edge devices. The operation of the distributed system may be managed by monitoring the edge devices. The edge devices may be monitored by identifying the health state of an edge device. The health state of the edge device may be identi...