US Patent Issued to AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INTERNATIONAL on April 21 for "Techniques of encrypting BMC and bios firmware and data in flash memory" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,322, issued on April 21, was assigned to AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INTERNATIONAL LLC (Duluth, Ga.).

"Techniques of encrypting BMC and bios firmware and data in flash memory" was invented by Samvinesh Christopher (Suwanee, Ga.), Anurag Bhatia (Sugar Hill, Ga.) and Winston Thangapandian (Suwanee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus is a BMC. The BMC receives data to be written to a storage. The BMC encrypts the data using a stream encrypt engine to generate encrypted data. The BMC writes the encrypted data to the storage. The BM...