US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 1 for "Remote secure boot verification service for secure deployment of virtual machines" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,864, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Remote secure boot verification service for secure deployment of virtual machines" was invented by Ankit Singh (Bangalore, India), Shrikant U. Hallur (Bangalore, India) and Naveen Awasthy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed systems and methods for authenticating virtual machines, upon detecting a virtual machine launch (VML) request associated with a hypervisor and an unconfirmed VM, request a VM signing (VMS) certificate from a deployment/verification cloud server. The VMS certificate is forwarded to a certificate store of the hyper...