ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,744, issued on July 22, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for data retention based on commonalities between data processing systems" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheva, Israel), Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Ronen Rabani (Kibuts Telalim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for authenticating data processing systems throughout a distributed environment without user intervention are disclosed. To authenticate data processing systems without user intervention, a system may include a network core and one or more data processing systems. Data processing systems m...