ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,890, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Preventing the introduction of malicious-edge-gateway the edge management's fleet via network interceptor and identity validation" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheba, Israel), Yehiel Zohar (Sderot, Israel), Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel), Tomer Shachar (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One method includes verifying, by a gateway management system, an edge gateway, upon successful verification of the edge gateway, generating an identifier that is unique to the edge gateway, and storing the id...