ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,286, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Secure LCS communication system" was invented by Jonathan Deonarine (Cedar Park, Texas) and Shyamkumar T. Iyer (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure LCS communication system includes a first host processing system that is configured to provide a first LCS, a second host processing system that is configured to provide a second LCS, and an SCP device that is connected to the first host processing system and that is coupled to the second host processing system via a network. The SCP device uses first keys associated with the first LCS t...