ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,876, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Device protection using pre-execution command interception and evaluation" was invented by Tomer Shachar (Beer Sheva, Israel), Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel) and Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for device protection using pre-execution command interception and evaluation. One method comprises obtaining, by a software entity associated with an operating system kernel of a device, a command from a user prior to an execution of the command; providing, by the software entity associated with the operating...