ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,226, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Device authentication for onboarding" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.) and William Jeffery White (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to receive a cryptographically attested digital document from an onboarding management system, wherein the cryptographically attested digital document comprises one or more credentials for at least one device requesting access to a secure communication channel to communicate with the onboarding management system. The at least one proces...