US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 16 for "Secure component verification using nfc" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,200, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Secure component verification using nfc" was invented by Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.), Efi Levi (Be'er-Sheva, Israel) and Lior Benisty (Be'er-Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electronic hardware components include integrated near field communications (NFC) modules configured to respond to authentication messages sent by a baseboard management controller (BMC). The authentication messages include cryptographic authentication challenges. The hardware component NFC modules are configured with private keys to decrypt messages sent by the BMC and digita...