ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,195, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Validation of environmental restrictions on IHS operations" was invented by Deepaganesh Paulraj (Bangalore, India), Kalyani Korubilli (Bangalore, India) and Nishaa Bouvanasilan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for validation and enforcement of the use of factory-provisioned environmental restrictions for the operation of certain hardware components of IHSs (Information Handling Systems). During factory provisioning of the IHS, a factory-signed certificate is uploaded to the IHS that identifies the factory-...