ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,974, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Securing blueprints for implementation in edge devices" was invented by Igor Dubrovsky (Beer Sheva, Israel), Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel) and Stav Sapir (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for securing blueprints are disclosed. A blueprint may be secured by requiring sufficient privilege to implement the blueprint. The sufficient privilege may be obtained through an analysis of permissions of a blueprint user and the blueprint authors. An analysis of the permissions of the blueprint user and the blueprint authors may inc...