ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,359, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Reversible validation of modifications to an IHS" was invented by Deepaganesh Paulraj (Bangalore, India), Nishaa Bouvanasilan (Bangalore, India) and Kalyani Korubilli (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for secure and reversible modifications to hardware components of IHSs (Information Handling Systems). During factory provisioning of the IHS, a factory-signed inventory certificate is uploaded to the IHS that identifies factory-installed hardware of the IHS. Factory provisioning also generates an ownership vouc...