ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,074, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for secure access to a distributed virtual firmware network drive" was invented by Shekar Babu Suryanarayana (Bangalore, India) and Sumanth Vidyadhara (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes a virtual network access module configured to access a virtual network drive that has a first partition in a local storage resource and a second partition in a remote storage resource. In response to detection of an exception, a processor may trigger an exception handler that directs a service processor...