ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,366, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Secure remote support for edge computing platform" was invented by Anurag Sharma (Cedar Park, Texas), Daniel E. Cummins (Hudson, N.H.) and Michael Emery Brown (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed method for providing a non-credentialed user (NCU) with secure access to a remote endpoint of an edge computing platform, generates a support voucher for the NCU wherein the support voucher comprises a temporary ownership voucher including one or more digital signatures establishing a chain of trust from a root of trust to the NCU. The method ...