ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,999, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing operation of edge devices using playbooks" was invented by Roman Bober (Ashdod, Israel), Eyal Porges (Jerusalem), Doron Bokobza (Mishmar HaNegev, Israel) and Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing edge devices are disclosed. The edge devices may be managed using playbooks. The playbooks may be used to manage operation and security of edge devices. The playbooks may be generated by the edge devices and include implementation mapping and vulnerabilities mapping of software on the edge devices. ...