ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,325, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"System and method for hardware component validation for onboarding" was invented by Mahesh Babu Ramaiah (Bangalore, India), Joseph Caisse (Burlington, Mass.) and Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for verifying component loadouts are disclosed. During onboarding and after onboarding, the hardware component loadouts of endpoint devices may be checked to identify whether component drift has occurred. The checks may be performed by comparing actual loadouts to expected loadouts. The expected loadouts may be ide...