US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 16 for "Secure personal information exchange by an information handling system" (Pennsylvania, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,310, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Secure personal information exchange by an information handling system" was invented by Maxwell S. Andrews (Kennett Square, Pa.) and Charles D. Robison (Buford, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-based information security techniques are provided that enable a user to reduce and control the amount of personal information digitally supplied to any given service provider when transacting or otherwise interacting with these service providers. Using these techniques, the user can release the minimally required personal information needed for a parti...