US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 9 for "Computing device configuration modification prevention system" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,954, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Computing device configuration modification prevention system" was invented by Wei Liu (Austin, Texas) and Po-Yu Cheng (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device configuration modification prevention system includes a chassis that houses a BIOS storage subsystem that stores a BIOS authentication information and BIOS settings, a BIOS settings modification subsystem and a BIOS authentication modification subsystem, and a BIOS lockdown subsystem that is coupled to the BIOS storage subsystem, the BIOS settings modification subsystem, an...