ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,797, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Trusted cloud device lifecycle management" was invented by Vinay Sawal (Fremont, Calif.), Viswanath Ponnuru (KA, India), Alan White (Glasgow, Great Britain), Yi Fang (Sharon, Mass.) and Igor Pedan (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can receive an untrusted onboard announcement message from a remote computer, wherein the untrusted onboard announcement message comprises first data that identifies the remote computer and second data that indicates a current configuration of the remote computer. The system can identify a stored indication of ...