ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,939, issued on June 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Security for a split boot architecture" was invented by Karunakar Poosapalli (Bangalore, India), Shekar Babu Suryanarayana (Bangalore, India) and Ibrahim Sayyed (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for security for a split-boot architecture are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include: a printed circuit board; a processor coupled to the printed circuit board; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises program instructions stored thereon...