ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,782, issued on March 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Enforcement of factory-provisioned restrictions on modifications to IHS hardware" was invented by Rama Rao Bisa (Bangalore, India), Mini Thottunkal Thankappan (Bangalore, India), Vineeth Radhakrishnan (Palakkad, India), Dharma Bhushan Ramaiah (Bangalore, India), Shinose Abdul Rahiman (Bangalore, India), A Anis Ahmed (Bangalore, India) and Jason Matthew Young (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for validation and enforcement of the use of factory-provisioned boot restrictions for the operation of an (Informat...