ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,759, issued on July 22, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for selective refresh of security data responsive to compromise event" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheva, Israel), Yehiel Zohar (Sderot, Israel) and Lee Serfaty (Be'er Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for securing distributed systems are disclosed. The distributed systems may include data processing systems subject to compromise by malicious entities. If compromised, the data processing systems may impair the services provided by the distributed system. To secure the distributed systems, the data p...