US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on March 17 for "Secure coprocessor enforced system firmware feature enablement" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,327, issued on March 17, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Secure coprocessor enforced system firmware feature enablement" was invented by Tan Peng (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Scott Swanstrom (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, in response to a request to enable a set of firmware features in a processing device, performing a validation process based on a key certificate associating a first entity identifier with a firmware feature description file indicating the set of firmware features, and in response to a violation detected during the validation process, enabling a coun...