ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,990, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Extended reality assistance provided via security protocol data model (SPDM)" was invented by Deepaganesh Paulraj (Bangalore, India) and Mini Thottunkal Thankappan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide an Information Handling System (IHS) comprising one or more host processor modules configured to host pluggable hardware devices and a secure control module configured to host a baseboard management controller. The baseboard management controller obtain an SPDM alias certificate from at least one pluggable hardware devi...