ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,909, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and system for monitoring health and security of data center components via bi-directional proxy" was invented by Parminder Singh Sethi (Ludhiana, India), Anay Kishore (Bangalore, India) and Nithish Kn (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a data center includes: receiving metadata associated with a data center component (DCC); making a first determination that the DCC is valid; analyzing, based on the first determination, the metadata to extract relevant data; obtaining a current state of the DCC based on the rele...