ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,623, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Synchronization of system time among smart devices via Security Protocol Data Model (SPDM)" was invented by Deepaganesh Paulraj (Bangalore, India) and Lee E. Ballard (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide an Information Handling System (IHS) comprising a host processor module configured to host one or more processors and two or more smart devices, a secure control module configured to host a baseboard management controller, and a secure control interface configured to support communication between the secure control mod...