ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,801, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

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