US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 1 for "Late-bound licensing of endpoint devices" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,852, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Late-bound licensing of endpoint devices" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.) and Mahesh Babu Ramaiah (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing endpoint devices are disclosed. The endpoint devices may be managed by onboarding them. To onboard the endpoint devices, ownership vouchers may be used to cryptographically verify to which entities authority over the endpoint devices have been delegated. The ownership vouchers may also include licenses to be applied by the endpoint devices during the onboarding....