US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 23 for "Secure access via 802.1X port-based network access control (PNAC)" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,400, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Secure access via 802.1X port-based network access control (PNAC)" was invented by Deepaganesh Paulraj (Bangalore, India) and Lee E. Ballard (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide an Information Handling System (IHS) comprising a host processor module configured to host at least one smart device and a secure control module configured to host a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC). The BMC validates identities and determine capabilities of the at least one smart device using Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM) m...