ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,840, issued on March 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for creating trustworthy orchestration instructions within a containerized computing environment for validation within an alternate computing environment" was invented by Nicholas D. Grobelny (Evergreen, Colo.), Sumanth Vidyadhara (Bangalore, India), Richard M. Tonry (Georgetown, Texas) and Amy C. Nelson (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to provide a basic input/output system (BIOS) with the ability to authenticate and then execute one-time unique instructions that...