ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,836, issued on March 31.

"Systems and methods for streamlined platform component attestation" was invented by Hongsoon Kwon (Porter Ranch, Calif.), Chandrashekar Nelogal (Round Rock, Texas), Jason Matthew Young (Round Rock, Texas) and Michael Rash (Mount Airy, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for streamlined platform attestation are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory may have program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: read root certificates for a pl...