ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,421, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Trusted and validated platform device certificate provisioning using security protocol data model (SPDM)" was invented by Viswanath Ponnuru (Bangalore, India), Chandrashekar Nelogal (Round Rock, Texas), Dharma Bhushan Ramaiah (Bangalore, India), Vineeth Radhakrishnan (Palakkad, India), Mini Thottunkal Thankappan (Bangalore, India), Rama Rao Bisa (Bangalore, India) and Shinose Abdul Rahiman (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide for SPDM-enabled devices that conform to an SPDM specification. An SPDM-enabled device rece...