US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 17 for "Methods to digitally sign dynamic content" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,321, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Methods to digitally sign dynamic content" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.), Joseph Caisse (Burlington, Mass.), Kirk Alan Hutchinson (Londonderry, N.H.) and Daniel E. Cummins (Hudson, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing endpoint devices are disclosed. The endpoint devices may be managed by verifying blueprints prior to use. To verify the blueprints, the blueprints may be normalized to reduce variability in blueprint content. Once normalized, static content may be identified. Signatures from the blueprints...