US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 11 for "State management with distributed control plane" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,542, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"State management with distributed control plane" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.), Joseph Caisse (Burlington, Mass.), Kirk Alan Hutchinson (Londonderry, N.H.), Antony Prabakaran Jayaveeran (Singapore) and Kumaresan Pachiappan (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for manage operation of endpoint devices are disclosed. To manage the operation of endpoint devices, management systems may monitor and update the state of the endpoint devices. To manage incongruencies among state updates and the states of the endpoint dev...