ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,683, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Edge configuration aware license key" was invented by Shibi Panikkar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Edge configuration aware license key generation is presented herein. An example method comprises, in response to downloading an intelligent activation key, instantiating an edge configuration engine comprising a listening process and a configuration process, creating and associating a license file vault instance with the edge configuration engine, initiating the listening process, and based on the listening process detecting that a change h...