ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,074, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for managing security and access for management controller embedded devices" was invented by Ajay Shenoy (Bangalore, India) and Mahesh Babu Ramaiah (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing operation of data processing systems are disclosed. To manage operation of the data processing systems, the data processing systems may present unified communication and management systems. The unified communication and management systems may be used to manage the operation of any number of management controlle...