ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,371, issued on May 27, was assigned to EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Systems and methods for peripheral device security" was invented by Austin Patrick Bolen (Austin, Texas) and Chandrashekar Nelogal (Round Rock, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating a peripheral device, that includes detecting, by a baseboard management controller (BMC), a presence of the peripheral device, receiving authentication credentials from the peripheral device, making a determination, based on the authentication credentials, that the peripheral device is authentic, and sending, in response to the determination, ...