ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,951, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for use of peripheral hardware by modern workspaces" was invented by Daniel L. Hamlin (Round Rock, Texas) and Vivek Viswanathan Iyer (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system support use of peripheral devices by workspaces operating on an Information Handling System (IHS), where the workspaces operate in isolation from the hardware and other software of the IHS. Workspaces are thus unable to interface with hardware coupled to the IHS, including peripheral devices coupled to the IHS. In embodiments, workspace issue...