ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,084, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method of hiding security sensitive features in untrusted environments" was invented by Juelong Yin (Shanghai), Hao Wang (Shanghai), Dmitry Vladimirovich Krivenok (Dublin) and Chaowen Han (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for hiding security-sensitive features in untrusted environments. The techniques include inserting, in a development build image, one or more security-sensitive scripts encrypted with a unique encryption key for the development build image, and inserting, in a release build image, the security-sensitive scripts ...