ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,294, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Clustered virtual trusted platform module domain services system" was invented by Jeroen Mackenbach (Roosendaal, Netherlands), Anantha K Boyapalle (Cedar Park, Texas) and John Henry Terpstra (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes a virtual trusted platform module (TPM) consumer associated with a virtual machine. The virtual TPM (vTPM) consumer may consume TPM services from a clustered vTPM domain service and determine the connection information of the vTPM domain service. The vTPM consumer transmits a connectio...