ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,771, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Out-of-Band (OOB) packet authentication in heterogeneous computing platforms" was invented by Adolfo S. Montero (Pflugerville, Texas), Abeye Teshome (Austin, Texas) and Alok Pant (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for Out-of-Band (OOB) packet authentication in heterogeneous computing platforms. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a heterogeneous computing platform and an OOB Microcontroller Unit (MCU) integrated into the heterogeneous computing platform, where the OOB MCU is configured to rec...