ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,820, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Management of information technology assets utilizing a cellular-based management network" was invented by Senthil Kumar Ganesan (San Ramon, Calif.), Venkatesan Mahalingam (Pleasanton, Calif.), Vinoth Kumar Arumugam (Fremont, Calif.) and Per Henrik Fremrot (Novato, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to determine whether an information technology asset in an information technology infrastructure environment is equipped with a cellular modem and, responsive to determining that the informat...