ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,680, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Trust-chain based adaptable telemetry" was invented by Srikanth Kondapi (Austin, Texas), Balasingh P. Samuel (Round Rock, Texas) and Girish S. Dhoble (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and systems are provided for adaptive collection of telemetry by an Information Handling System (IHS). A validation failure of a hardware component of the IHS is detected, where the hardware component is part a chain of trusted hardware components of the IHS. A position of the hardware component is determined within the chain of trusted hardware components of t...