ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,849, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing trusted platform module (TPM) replacement at an information handling system" was invented by Shailesh Hastimal Jain (Mahrashtra, India), Gokul Thiruchengode Vajravel (Bangalore, India) and Ramanaa H V (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing TPM replacement at a IHS, including encrypting, by the client IHS, a storage device at the client IHS utilizing a first TPM and first keys; providing, by the client IHS and to the management server IHS, the first keys; storing the first keys at a database; detecting replacement of the first TP...