US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for protecting information handling system boot using smart network interface controllers" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,546, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for protecting information handling system boot using smart network interface controllers" was invented by Wai Chuen Yim (Merrimack, N.H.) and Walter O'Brien III (Westboro, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ransomware protection smart network interface controller (SmartNIC) is configured to create a secure snapshot of a boot device of an information handling system (IHS), create a secure alternate boot device on each boot of the IHS, and export the boot device and the secure alternate boot device to the IHS. The IHS is configured t...