US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 31 for "Systems and methods for digital retirement of information handling systems" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,820, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for digital retirement of information handling systems" was invented by Tomer Shachar (Beer-Sheva, Israel), Maxim Balin (Gan Yavne, Israel) and Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital retirement of an IHS may include encrypting, by the IHS, data on the IHS, using an encryption key stored in a trusted platform module (TPM) of the IHS, and incapacitating the TPM. This encryption key may be a (unique (256-bit encryption)) data sanitization key stored protected inside the TPM, thereby, the encryption key is...