ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,490, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Selecting a communication method using a management controller of a data processing system" was invented by Vinodkumar Vasudev Ottar (McKinney, Texas), Abeye Teshome (Austin, Texas), Richard M. Tonry (Georgetown, Texas), Bassem El-Azzami (Austin, Texas), Mohit Arora (Frisco, Texas), Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes (Waxahachie, Texas), Adolfo Sandor Montero (Pflugerville, Texas) and Rajaravi Chandra Kollarapu (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing operations of a data processing system are disclosed. To manage operations o...