ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,628, issued on July 8, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Systems and methods for identifying and organizing device capabilities into graphical hierarchies" was invented by Anna Groves (Austin, Mass.), John Thomas Cardente (Milford, Mass.), Gaurav Chawla (Austin, Texas), Douglas Lang Farley (Round Rock, Texas), Kirk A. Frey (Flemington, N.J.), Robert Anthony Lincourt Jr. (Franklin, Mass.), Tommi Salli (Austin, Texas) and John S. Harwood (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a domain topology for a system, the method that includes accessing a functional model database, identifying, in a comp...