US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 2 for "Secure VSAN cluster using device authentication and integrity measurements" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,796, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Secure VSAN cluster using device authentication and integrity measurements" was invented by Viswanath Ponnuru (Bangalore, India), Krishnaprasad K (Bengaluru, India) and Chandrashekar Nelogal (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node for a VSAN includes a BMC, a processor, and a plurality of VSAN objects. The processor instantiates a Cluster Membership, Monitoring, and Directory Service (CMMDS) and a BMC Service Module (SM). The CMMDS implements a Security Policy and Data Model (SPDM) architecture. The CMMDS determines an inventory list of the ...