ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,846, issued on May 6, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing a workspace mesh" was invented by Gokul Thiruchengode Vajravel (Bangalore, India), Vivekanandh Narayanasamy Rajagopalan (Bangalore, India) and Vivek Viswanathan Iyer (St Johns, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workspace mesh can be managed. A mesh manager can interface with agents on smart devices to create and update nodes that may form part of a workspace mesh. The mesh manager can also automatically detect when multiple nodes have formed a workspace mesh and then dynamically select and apply mesh policies to the smart devices and peripherals...