US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 27 for "Error handling for runtime operations of operating system boot files for UEFI secure boot systems" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,135, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Error handling for runtime operations of operating system boot files for UEFI secure boot systems" was invented by Xinghai Yu (Beijing) and Colin Zou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure boot monitoring and validation process during operating system (OS) upgrade operations from a previous OS version. A validated copy of OS boot files is made during OS installation. A checksum comparator or OS boot file filesystem check (FSCK) component validates the boot files upon initial installation of the OS. Any validation failure indicates corrupt...