ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,730, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Automated information handling system hardening optimization systems and methods" was invented by Tomer Shachar (Beer-Sheva, Israel), Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Ill.) and Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automating Information Handling System (IHS) hardening optimization includes retrieving, from a plurality of IHS hardening configurations, an initial IHS hardening configuration and hardening an IHS based on the initial hardening configuration. An IHS hardening verification tool is then run to verify that the IHS is in complianc...