ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,607, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method to enhance and enforce zero trust in appliance supply chain" was invented by Piyush Ravikant Tambekar (Pune, India), Abhidnya Sushant Joshi (Pune, India) and Mukesh K. Sharma (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing appliance is configured with a zero trust validator and a zero trust enforcer that are configured to ensure that the appliance is protected in the supply chain. The zero trust validator compares a factory state of the appliance generated at the factory with an on-site state of the appliance at a customer locatio...