US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 11 for "Use of image signing in endpoint device operation management" (Massachusetts, Ohio, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,801, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Use of image signing in endpoint device operation management" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.), Joseph Caisse (Burlington, Mass.) and James Daniel Harms (Worthington, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for securing endpoint devices are disclosed. Overtime, the functionality of endpoint devices may be modified as new software is developed. To secure endpoint devices, software images of the new software may be verified prior to execution. Information usable to verify the software images may be stored in a database. A set...