ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,454, issued on March 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Management controller firmware updates for information handling system (IHS) component without a direct out-of-band (OOB) management channel" was invented by Lee E. Ballard (Georgetown, Texas), Deepaganesh Paulraj (Bangalore, India) and Jason B. Kilpatrick (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for management controller firmware updates for an Information Handling System ("IHS") component without a direct out-of-band management channel are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include a host system,...