US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 12 for "Key possession based verification in endpoint devices" (Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,504, issued on May 12, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Key possession based verification in endpoint devices" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.), Eric Joseph Bruno (Shirley, N.Y.) and Joseph Caisse (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for securing endpoint devices are disclosed. To secure the endpoint devices, multiple processes for validating authority to invoke performance of commands may be implemented. The processes may include request based processes and challenge response based processes. In the challenge response based processes, an invoker of a command may ...