US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on June 23 for "Security inspections" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,053, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Security inspections" was invented by Adrian John Baldwin (Bristol, Great Britain), Stuart Lees (Bristol, Great Britain), Jonathan Griffin (Bristol, Great Britain) and Daniel Ellam (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a method for performing an out-of-band security inspection of a device comprises generating a snapshot of the state of the device, storing data representing the snapshot to a non-volatile storage of the device, and storing a hash of the snapshot in a device BIOS, transitioning the power state ...