US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 3 for "Validation and recovery of operating system boot files during OS upgrade operations for UEFI secure boot systems" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,599, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Validation and recovery of operating system boot files during OS upgrade operations for UEFI secure boot systems" was invented by Xinghai Yu (Beijing) and Colin Zou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are described for a secure boot monitoring and validation process during operating system (OS) upgrade operations from a previous OS version. A validated copy of OS boot files is made during OS installation. A checksum comparator or OS boot file filesystem check (FSCK) component validates the boot files upon initial installation of the O...