ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,843, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Networked system with protection from effects of network address conflicts" was invented by Dmitry Vladimirovich Krivenok (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nodes of a protected system perform protected network address discovery by establishing a management overlay network using static network addresses not subject to network discovery, and using the overlay network to communicate application-level network address information among the protected nodes. Each protected node operates to (1) maintain a store of the application-level network address informati...