ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,562, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System level root of trust (ROT) binding and trust establishment" was invented by Deepaganesh Paulraj (Bangalore, India), Anil V. Rao (Cedar Park, Texas) and Akkiah Choudary Maddukuri (Austin, 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 and a secure control module. A baseboard management controller executes a process that binds the host processor module to the secure control module using a hash value calculated from characteristics of components of the first host ...