ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,769, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Software code caching in gateway devices deployed in information technology infrastructure environments" was invented by Jeffrey Teel Glenn (Pflugerville, Texas), Matthew Gregory Puerkel (Minneapolis) and Sheetal Kuber Pattankude (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes at least one processing device configured to receive, at a gateway device deployed in an information technology (IT) infrastructure environment from a given IT asset, a request for software code. The processing device is also configured to download the request...