US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 1 for "Secure device validator ledger" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,628, issued on April 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Secure device validator ledger" was invented by Jeroen Mackenbach (Roosendaal, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes a component verification record, a software BoM, a firmware BoM, and a secure device validation record. The component verification record is obtained from a first distributed ledger and characterizes a provisioning action performed on the computing device in a supply chain of the computing device. The software BoM characterizes software instantiated on the computing device. The firmware BOM characterizes firm...