ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,788, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Telemetry-initiated mitigations in a zero-trust computing environment" was invented by Balasingh P. Samuel (Round Rock, Texas) and Srikanth Kondapi (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information Handling Systems (IHSs) support pre-boot telemetry for use in a zero-trust environment. A pre-boot telemetry orchestrator of the IHS retrieves a factory-provisioned resource locator of a service that provides a location of a policy decision point of the zero-trust environment. The pre-boot telemetry orchestrator establishes an encrypted session with the ...