US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 23 for "Secure operating system provisioning system" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,999, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Secure operating system provisioning system" was invented by Srinivas Giri Raju Gowda (Fremont, Calif.), Douglas Lang Farley (Round Rock, Texas) and Trevor Christian Cockrell (Hutto, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure operating system provisioning system includes a resource system having resource device(s), an SCP device, and a BIOS coupled to the resource device(s) and the SCP device. The BIOS begins initialization operations, retrieves a first subset of BIOS firmware, enters a first SMM and uses the first subset of BIOS firmware to authenticat...