ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,240, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Bios method for securing and protecting end point with ownership information" was invented by Ibrahim Sayyed (Georgetown, Texas), Charles D. Robison (Buford, Ga.) and Anand Prakash Joshi (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed systems and methods for securing an information handling system monitor for certain predetermined events, and, upon detecting any one of the predetermined events, requesting ownership data indicative of the authorized or recognized owner. In some embodiments, the ownership data is conveyed via a digital certificat...