ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,908, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data center asset authentication for a prospective data center asset owner via an onboarding operation" was invented by Stav Sapir (Beer Sheba, Israel), Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.), Joseph B. Caisse (Burlington, Mass.), Muzhar S. Khokhar (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Ching-Yun Chao (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center monitoring and management operation. The data center monitoring and management operation includes: providing the data center asset to a prospective owner; est...