US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 30 for "Password encryption for servicing high security systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,445, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Password encryption for servicing high security systems" was invented by Allen B. McKittrick (Cedar Park, Texas) and Daniel Hamlin (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes top and bottom housings, multiple fixed locking magnets secured within the bottom housing, multiple movable locking magnets located within the top housing, and a contracting wire in physical communication with each of the movable locking magnets. The contracting wire shrinks in length based on a voltage being applied to the contracting wir...