ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,015, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System context-aware third party firmware safe assurance configuration" was invented by Laxmi Lavanya Medicherla (Georgetown, Texas), Ibrahim Sayyed (Georgetown, Texas) and Jagadish Babu Jonnada (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system may include at least one processor and a computer-readable medium having instructions thereon that are executable by the at least one processor. The instructions may be executable for: prior to initialization of an operating system, executing a first-party pre-boot firmware application, w...