ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,194, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Secure peripheral management" was invented by Karunakar Palicherla Reddy (Austin, Texas), Charles D. Robison (Buford, Ga.) and Michael S. Gatson (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for secure peripheral management are described. One example method includes detecting that a peripheral device has been connected to the computer system; sending, via a network, a verification request for the peripheral device to a management server identified by a network address stored in a firmware of the peripheral device, wherein the verification requ...