US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 9 for "Self-attesting secure blueprints" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,925, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Self-attesting secure blueprints" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.), Joseph Caisse (Burlington, Mass.), Kirk Alan Hutchinson (Londonderry, N.H.) and Daniel E. Cummins (Hudson, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing endpoint devices are disclosed. The endpoint devices may be managed by verifying blueprints and authors of blueprints prior to use. To verify the blueprints, the blueprints may be normalized to reduce variability in blueprint content. Once normalized, static content may be identified. Signatures from t...