ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,242, issued on June 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Pre-OS authentication" was invented by Ganesh Kuppuswamy Viswanathan (Round Rock, Texas), Nelson Cheng (Cedar Park, Texas) and Volker Nadolski (Kempen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system may include at least one processor, an input device, and a display device. The information handling system may be configured to: prior to booting an operating system, display a displayable identifier on the display device, wherein the displayable identifier encodes information indicative of a system identifier of the information handling ...