ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,120, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Enabling secure debug logging" was invented by Vikas Jagannath Chaudhary (Pune, India) and Abhidnya Sushant Joshi (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software product that requires debugging receives a security token in response to a request to enable debug logging. The security token is validated. Upon a successful validation of the security token, debug logging is enabled and debug logs are encrypted while being dumped. A duration for which debug logging has been enabled is tracked. When the duration reaches a cutoff duration, the debug logging i...