ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,359, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and system for converting existing computing devices into fast identity online (FIDO) device onboard (FDO) compliant computing devices" was invented by Thwin Nyi Nyi (Singapore), Ravinder Tamishetty (Singapore), Govind Pulikode Mukundan (Singapore) and Ashish Mishra (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for onboarding a client includes: sending a request to a global manufacturing service (GMS) module to register the client; receiving a GMS agent from the GMS module; executing the GMS agent on the client to collect a dataset; initiating ...