ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,206, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Time varying information encoding scheme for device security" was invented by Shree Rathinasamy (Round Rock, Texas), Padmanabhan Narayanan (Chennai, India) and Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing operation of endpoint devices are disclosed. The operation of the endpoint devices may be managed by requiring that the endpoint devices obtain security data from other devices. If the security data is not obtained, the endpoint devices may seal at least some of their functions from use by users. By limi...