US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 14 for "Utilizing a hash of a boot path as indication of a secure boot flow" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,718, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Utilizing a hash of a boot path as indication of a secure boot flow" was invented by Xiaomei Zhu Miller (Round Rock, Texas), Adolfo S. Montero (Pflugerville, Texas) and Shekar Babu S (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes a memory device and a BIOS. The BIOS executes a plurality of processes to boot the information handling system. Each process has a unique identifier (ID). When the BIOS executes a first process, the BIOS calculates a first hash value of a first ID of the first process and stores the first ...