US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 5 for "Establishment of signing pipelines and validation of signed software images" (Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,704, issued on May 5, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Establishment of signing pipelines and validation of signed software images" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.), Joseph Caisse (Burlington, Mass.) and Eric Joseph Bruno (Shirley, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for using signing pipelines to secure endpoint systems are disclosed. Endpoint systems may be secured using signed images that are signed by the signing pipelines. The signing pipelines may be based on validation rules implemented by the endpoint systems. The validation rules may be analyzed to identify how images ...