ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,965, issued on May 12, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for secure firmware updates" was invented by Deepaganesh Paulraj (Bangalore, India), Mahesh Babu Ramaiah (Bangalore, India), Rama Rao Bisa (Bangalore, India), Ajay Shenoy (Bangalore, India), Manjunath Vishwanath (Bangalore, India) and Sivakami Velusamy (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods prevent nonsecure updates to firmware of an IHS (Information Handling System). During factory provisioning of the IHS, a manifest of firmware loaded for operating a hardware component of the IHS is digitally signed by a re...