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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 17, 2020
Applicant:

Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Nicholas D. Grobelny, Austin, TX (US);

Geroncio O. Tan, Austin, TX (US);

Richard C. Thompson, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Adolfo S. Montero, Pflugerville, TX (US);

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 29/16 (2006.01); G08B 21/18 (2006.01); H01M 50/20 (2021.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 29/16 (2013.01); G06F 9/4401 (2013.01); G08B 21/18 (2013.01); H01M 50/20 (2021.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods that may be implemented to employ a programmable integrated circuit within a smart battery pack to detect and/or log occurrence of chassis intrusion and/or tampering events in a battery-powered information handling system within which the smart battery pack is installed. A battery management unit (BMU) or other programmable integrated circuit of the installed smart battery pack may be utilized to detect occurrence of a tampering and/or intrusion event into the chassis of the host information handling system based on a current state of a system present (Sys_Pres) signal at the battery pack that indicates temporary or permanent disconnection of system motherboard circuitry from the smart battery pack of the battery-powered information handling system. Such a detected occurrence of a tampering and/or intrusion event may be reported to a remote human user of remote system and/or to a local human user of the local system.


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