US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 23 for "System and method for applying security mitigation to components within a storage system" (Massachusetts, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,444, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for applying security mitigation to components within a storage system" was invented by Kevin Drew Barrett (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Jochen Frans Jozef De Smet (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Brandon Myers (Durham, N.C.) and Benjamin Kelley (Sturbridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing a request to enable a secure mode on a storage system. A secure mode flag on each node of the storage system is set. A first storage node of the storage system is rebooted. The secure mode flag o...