ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,525, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Device modification state validation" was invented by Kevin W. Beck (Raleigh, N.C.), Robert James Norton Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.), Justin Ringuette (Cary, N.C.) and Sandy Collins (Durham, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method, the method including: receiving, at a device validation system and utilizing a wireless communication mechanism, current state information identifying a current configuration of a device; obtaining, using the device validation system and from a data store including trusted state information for a plurali...