US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 17 for "System and method to detect problematic code changes in firmware" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,621, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method to detect problematic code changes in firmware" was invented by Xiaowei Shen (Shanghai), Xiaoxuan Dong (Shanghai) and Tianyu Zheng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes a storage and a baseboard management controller. The storage stores a current firmware release for the information handling system. The baseboard management controller generates a set of breakpoints for code differences from a previous firmware release to the current firmware release and executes multiple testcases for the current...