ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,741, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Dynamically migrating drive locking keys across key management servers" was invented by Marcelo Saraiva (Austin, Texas), Manjunath Vishwanath (Bangalore, India), Ajay Shenoy (Bangalore, India) and Srikanth Krishnamurthy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes a BMC configurable in a first mode to provide external encryption keys for transactions with a storage device from external key management services, and in a second mode to generate local encryption keys for the transactions. At a first time, the BMC is...