US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 4 for "System and method for identifying presence and function of components of data processing systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,316, issued on March 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for identifying presence and function of components of data processing systems" was invented by Curtis Ray Genz (Round Rock, Texas), Donald W. Gerhart (Leander, Texas), Jeffrey Leighton Kennedy (Austin, Texas), Randy Alton Frazier (New Braunfels, Texas) and Nicole Mutesi (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing the operation of data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include a computing device that may provide computer implemented services. To provide the computer imple...