US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 7 for "Information handling system peripheral device health state tracking for enhanced reuse and recycling" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,899, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system peripheral device health state tracking for enhanced reuse and recycling" was invented by John Trevor Morrison (Round Rock, Texas) and Jace W. Files (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peripheral device having one or more input devices tracks total inputs at the input devices locally and reports the total inputs to an information handling system to track health of the peripheral for reuse. Input device actuations and/or values are queued in batches of sufficient size so that communication to non-transitory memory a...