ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,724, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Firmware guard extension with converged defense engine" was invented by Shekar Babu Suryanarayana (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for data protection, comprising an address mapping state machine configured to receive address data and protection data and to generate runtime address data, a firmware extension table coupled to a plurality of adders that are configured to receive data derived from the runtime address data and to output mapped runtime address data and a plurality of external components configured to receive the mapped ...