ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,328, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"SPDM-enabled device warranty management system and method" was invented by A Anis Ahmed (Bangalore, India), Mini Thottunkal Thankappan (Bangalore, India), Dharma Bhushan Ramaiah (Bangalore, India) and Vineeth Radhakrishnan (Palakkad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM)-enabled device uses a device identity to provide, among other things, storing of warranty information, and a technique to uniquely identify the SPDM-enabled device so that its movement can be track...