ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,783, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Certificate based security for declarative operations" was invented by Bradley Keith Goodman (Nashua, N.H.) and Joseph Brent Caisse (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endpoint node of a multiple node environment includes a storage and a processor. The storage stores a public key for an owner of the endpoint node. The processor receives a declarative request. The declarative request includes a signed certificate and a job to be performed in the endpoint node. In response to reception of the declarative request, the processor determines that...