ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,401, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Peripheral device data protection" was invented by Shekar Babu S (Bangalore, India), D R Thippeswamy (Tumkur District, India), Niyathi Shenoy K (Kasaragod, India) and Dayananda Angadi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system creates a secure virtual abstraction layer for a data transaction of a peripheral device and creates a virtual node as a passthrough of the secure virtual abstraction layer for the data transaction. The information handling system also remaps an address space of the peripheral device to a pseudo d...