ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,732, issued on May 5, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Secure boot telemetry in a heterogeneous computing platform" was invented by Ibrahim Sayyed (Georgetown, Texas), Alan H. Abdelhalim (Pflugerville, Texas) and Adolfo S. Montero (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include an Information Handling System (IHS) that is adapted to collect boot telemetry in a secure manner. Boot code of the IHS is executed to initiate a boot sequence that includes the generation of boot telemetry. The boot telemetry is collected in a partition of an NVRAM (Non-Volatile Random-Access Memory) of the ...