ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,320, issued on April 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Physical hardware controller for provisioning security services on processing devices" was invented by Victor Fong (Melrose, Mass.) and Kenneth Durazzo (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a first processing device, the first processing device comprising a physical hardware controller configured for coupling with a second processing device. The first processing device is configured to identify remote security service instances attached to the second processing device and to initiate, at the first processing device, one...