ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,753, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Cyber protection automation with secure physical vault" was invented by Peter Callewaert (Eernegem, Belgium), Dennis J. Trulli Jr. (Hudson, Mass.), Paul Linstead (Shrewsbury, Mass.), David Goncalves (Acushnet, Mass.), Melissa Flynn (North Attleboro, Mass.), Brett Quinn (Cotuit, Mass.) and Kevin Heasley (Dewey, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure physical vault is used in connection with cyber protection automation to ensure that initial configuration and all configuration changes to the cyber protection environment are only implemented by a host t...