US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 20 for "Device onboarding on secure networks" (New Hampshire, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,542, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Device onboarding on secure networks" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.) and William Jeffery White (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to receive one or more credentials for at least one device from an onboarding management system, and to receive a request from at least one authenticator to authenticate the at least one device in response to the at least one device requesting access to a secure communication channel to communicate with the onboarding management system....