US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on March 31 for "Secure coprocessor enforced system firmware feature enablement" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,715, issued on March 31, 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 performing a validation process on a firmware feature description file indicating a set of firmware features in an integrated circuit package, and communicating a result of the validation process to firmware feature enablement logic residing in the integrated circuit package."

The patent was filed on Dec. 9, 2021, under Application No. 17/546,577. ...