US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 18 for "Security key integrity verification using inventory certificates" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,955, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Security key integrity verification using inventory certificates" was invented by Mukund P. Khatri (Austin, Texas), Senthilkumar Ponnuswamy (San Jose, Calif.), Marshal F. Savage (Austin, Texas) and Eugene David Cho (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for security key integrity verification using inventory certificates. One method comprises receiving a user request to perform an action: obtaining an inventory certificate associated with a device; extracting a security key identifier from a security key corresponding to the ...