ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,942, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INTERNATIONAL LLC (Duluth, Ga.).
"Out-of-band (OOB) configuration of firmware settings using mapping identifiers (IDs) for firmware setup questions" was invented by Anandakrishnan Loganathan (Johnscreek, Ga.) and Muthuselvam R (Kottucherry, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A firmware transmits remote firmware setup user interface ("UI") resources to a baseboard management controller ("BMC"). The BMC utilizes the remote firmware setup UI resources to generate an out-of-band ("OOB") firmware setup UI that can be utilized to modify values associated with configuration setti...