US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 18 for "Secure hardware access in a heterogeneous computing platform" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,846, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Secure hardware access in a heterogeneous computing platform" was invented by Ibrahim Sayyed (Georgetown, Texas), Amit K. Tiwari (Austin, Texas) and Adolfo S. Montero (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include an Information Handling System (IHS) that is adapted to protect access to configurable settings of the IHS. Upon the IHS being powered, a UEFI boot sequence is initiated. During the boot sequence, a boot sequence notification is detected that indicates conditions required for booting an operating system of the IHS...