ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,506, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Embedded payload metadata signatures for tracking dispersed basic input output system components during operating system and pre-boot operations" was invented by Ranjan Kumar (Siliguri, India), Gowtham Moorthy (Namakkal, India) and Shekar Babu Suryanarayana (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes providing an information handling system with a distributed BIOS, the distributed BIOS including a BIOS component and a BIOS variable; identifying a processor environment installe...