ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,098, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"SPDM-based firmware protection system and method" was invented by Shinose Abdul Rahiman (Bangalore, India), Rama Rao Bisa (Bangalore, India), Dharma Bhushan Ramaiah (Bangalore, India), Vineeth Radhakrishnan (Palakkad, India) and Mini Thottunkal Thankappan (Bangalore, 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, a SPDM-based firmware protection system and method that, upon execution by computer-readable ...