US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 22 for "Service platform/transceiver device locking system" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,277, issued on April 22, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Service platform/transceiver device locking system" was invented by Padmanabhan Narayanan (Chennai, India) and Ming Chung Chow (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service platform/transceiver device locking system include a transceiver device that disables its data communication operations during an initialization operation and generates challenge information, and a platform device that retrieves that challenge information. The platform device uses a service platform private key to encrypt the challenge information, and provides the encryp...