ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,054, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Automated persistent context-aware device provisioning" was invented by John Henry Terpstra (Austin, Texas), Jeroen Mackenbach (Roosendaal, Netherlands) and Anantha K Boyapalle (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system may determine a personality flag value during a boot process, and execute a system update handler configured for connecting to a control plane. The system may also provision a software application in a current operating system environment or erase the existing operating system and provisional new enviro...