US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 12 for "Device onboarding in distributed systems" (American, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,511, issued on May 12, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Device onboarding in distributed systems" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.), Joseph Caisse (Burlington, Mass.) and Govind Pulikode Mukundan (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing endpoint devices are disclosed. The endpoint devices may be managed by onboarding them. To onboarding the endpoint devices, ownership vouchers and proxy certificates may be used to cryptographically verify to which entities authority over the endpoint devices have been delegated. The proxy certificates may extend certificate and/or...