ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,810, issued on July 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for distributed management of configurable hardware to satisfy user intent" was invented by Dharmesh M. Patel (Round Rock, Texas) and Lucas A. Wilson (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing distributed systems are disclosed. The distributed systems may include any number of data processing systems that may contribute to the functionality of the distributed system. To contribute to the functionality of the distributed system, each of the data processing systems may need to be configured to positiv...