ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,636, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Dynamically updating application compliance policies" was invented by Srinivasa Ragavan Rajagopalan (Bangalore, India), Ankit Kumar (Jharkhand, India), Jyothi Bandakka (Bengaluru, India), Andy Yiu (Lago Vista, Texas) and Ravi Vijaykumar Vanjani (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Application compliance policies can be dynamically updated. An agent can be deployed on user computing devices to monitor application install events to track how frequently users install applications on the user computing devices and whether applicable application com...