US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 17 for "Enforcement of factory-provisioned geographic restrictions on the operation of an IHS" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,823, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Enforcement of factory-provisioned geographic restrictions on the operation of an IHS" was invented by Mini Thottunkal Thankappan (Bangalore, India), Vineeth Radhakrishnan (Palakkad, India), Dharma Bhushan Ramaiah (Bangalore, India), Shinose Abdul Rahiman (Bangalore, India), Rama Rao Bisa (Bangalore, India), A Anis Ahmed (Bangalore, India) and Jason Matthew Young (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for validation and enforcement of the use of factory-provisioned geographic restrictions for the operation of cer...