US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 29 for "Pre-operating system embedded controller hardening based on operating system security awareness" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,569, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Pre-operating system embedded controller hardening based on operating system security awareness" was invented by Ibrahim Sayyed (Georgetown, Texas), Adolfo Montero (Pflugerville, Texas) and Laxmi Medicherla (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes an embedded controller and a memory device storing code that when executed causes the embedded controller to perform operations that includes receiving a request to change a security setting, determining a security policy associated with the security setting, and deter...