US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 20 for "Intelligent pre-boot indicators of vulnerability" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,466, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Intelligent pre-boot indicators of vulnerability" was invented by Shekar Babu Suryanarayana (Bangalore, India) and Virupakshi Channagiri Manjunath (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed method provides a Device Integrity and Zero Trust (DIZ) protocol to implement proactive as well as reactive firmware vulnerability management. The DIZ protocol identifies device-level firmware versions and vulnerabilities and dynamically compiles appropriate firmware updates. The protocol may further construct a telemetry of the security vulnerability ...