ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,236, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Management of self-signed certificates for secure boot of virtual machines" was invented by Ankit Singh (Bangalore, India) and Deepaganesh Paulraj (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system may initiate a secure boot process in response to a launch of a new virtual machine, and assign an identifier to the new virtual machine. In response to determining that the new virtual machine is to be associated with an authorized certificates database and an unauthorized certificates database, the system may compile a list of cert...