US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 19 for "Securing legacy adapters with a secure microcontroller unit and legacy adapter recovery" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,558, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Securing legacy adapters with a secure microcontroller unit and legacy adapter recovery" was invented by Lee E. Ballard (Georgetown, Texas), Jason B. Kilpatrick (Austin, Texas), Jonathan Foster Lewis (Round Rock, Texas) and Jason Christopher Rock (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter provides an expansion function to an information handling system. The adapter includes an adapter application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a memory device, and a control unit. The adapter ASIC provides the expansion function. The memory device stores fi...