US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 4 for "Multi-component blueprint digital signatures" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,826, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Multi-component blueprint digital signatures" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.), Joseph Caisse (Burlington, Mass.), Kirk Alan Hutchinson (Londonderry, N.H.) and Daniel E. Cummins (Hudson, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing endpoint devices are disclosed. The endpoint devices may be managed by verifying portions of customized blueprints prior to use. To verify the portions of the customized blueprints, the portions of the customized blueprints may be normalized to reduce variability in blueprint content. Once ...