ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,584, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Customer-secured telemetry in a zero-trust computing environment" was invented by Charles D. Robison (Buford, Ga.), Joseph Kozlowski (Broken Arrow, Okla.) and Girish S. Dhoble (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that operate an Information Handling System (IHS) support secure telemetry for use in a zero-trust environment. Upon being initialized, the IHS retrieves a factory-provisioned locator of a service that provides the IHS with a network location of a policy decision point of the zero-trust environment and that provides an encry...