ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,676, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"BIOS protection using agent-based validation of bios version" was invented by Tomer Shachar (Beer Sheva, Israel), Ophir Buchman (Raanana, Israel) and Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for basic input/output system (BIOS) protection using BIOS version validation. One method comprises obtaining, by an entity associated with an operating system of a device, identifiers of designated versions of a BIOS of the device; obtaining, by the entity, an identifier of an active BIOS version; updating, by the entity, t...