ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,807, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI)-level processing of out-of-band commands in heterogeneous computing platforms" was invented by Adolfo S. Montero (Pflugerville, Texas), Abeye Teshome (Austin, Texas) and Alok Pant (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)-level processing of Out-of-Band (OOB) commands in heterogeneous computing platforms. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include: a heterogeneous computing platform having a plurality of devices, ...