ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,591, issued on May 6, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for device authentication in a distributed environment without user intervention" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheva, Israel), Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Ronen Rabani (Kibuts Telalim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for authenticating data processing systems throughout a distributed environment without user intervention are disclosed. To authenticate data processing systems without user intervention, a system may include a network core and one or more data processing systems. A previously establi...