ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,101, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Extended root of trust validation for remote edge devices" was invented by Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel) and Shree Rathinasamy (Round Rock, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing operation of endpoint devices are disclosed. The operation of the endpoint devices may be managed by requiring that the endpoint devices obtain security data from other devices. If the security data is not obtained, the endpoint devices may seal at least some of their functions from use by users. By limiting the functions of the endpoint devices, mal...