ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,611, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System partition security assurance to protect system boot artifacts" was invented by Ibrahim Sayyed (Georgetown, Texas), Venkata Rama Krishna Rao Atta (Hyderabad, India), Laxmi Lavanya Medicherla (Georgetown, Texas) and Swapnil Keshavrao Patil (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes a memory device having a system partition, and a BIOS. The BIOS instantiates a file system during a boot phase of operation of the information handling system. The file system detects function calls to access the system partition...