ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,285, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INTERNATIONAL LLC (Duluth, Ga.).

"Preserving bios configuration data in an embedded computing device" was invented by Ramesh R (Chennai, India), Goutham Sayee Mullainathan (Chennai, India), Janarthanam B (Chennai, India) and Sundar Rajan Pitchumani (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To address the challenge of preserving BIOS configuration data in an embedded computing device, the disclosed techniques utilize a non-volatile storage device comprising a dedicated configuration area for storing BIOS configuration data, such as a user's BIOS preference settings. BI...