US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 4 for "Device protection using pre-execution command interception and user authentication" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,002, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Device protection using pre-execution command interception and user authentication" was invented by Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel), Tomer Shachar (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for device protection using pre-execution command interception and user authentication. One method comprises obtaining, by a software entity associated with an operating system kernel of a device, a request from a user to execute a command; determining, by the software entity associated with the operati...