ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,444, issued on May 26, was assigned to Tyco Fire & Security GmbH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).
"Method and system to enforce security on devices using device management layer" was invented by Nidhi Sharma (Maharashtra, India), John Steven Jilek (Grafton, Wis.) and Christopher William James (Comber, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to enforce security on a device by a device management client running on the device is provided. The method includes receiving a base product-platform profile of the device during a boot-up process of the device. The base product-platform profile indicates one or more control pa...