ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,777, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Remote cluster enrollment" was invented by Gaetan Wattiau (Bristol, Great Britain), Joshua Serratelli Schiffman (Washington), Adrian John Baldwin (Bristol, Great Britain) and Derek Lukasik (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cluster enrollment system remote to a device cluster performs a cluster enrollment process according to a cluster enrollment policy to determine whether a target device is authenticated to join the device cluster."

The patent was filed on March 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/180,744.

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