ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,149, issued on May 5, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Secure component verification in information processing system environment" was invented by Mahesh Babu Ramaiah (Bangalore, India), Sudhansu Sekhar Sahu (Bangalore, India) and Joseph Brent Caisse (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Secure component verification for use in an information processing system environment is disclosed. For example, a method comprises storing a public key associated with a first component of a system on a second component of the system, and storing a public key associated with the second component on the first component...