US Patent Issued to AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INTERNATIONAL on March 3 for "Supporting automatic and failsafe booting of BMC and bios firmware in a critical secured server system" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,670, issued on March 3, was assigned to AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INTERNATIONAL LLC (Duluth, Ga.).

"Supporting automatic and failsafe booting of BMC and bios firmware in a critical secured server system" was invented by Anurag Bhatia (Sugar Hill, Ga.), Winston Thangapandian (Suwanee, Ga.), Valantina Arumugam (Chennai, India) and Sathiyaseelan Lakshminarayanan (Thiruvarur, India).

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 validates a first boot program from an active firmware image based on a hardware component of the BMC....