US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Nov. 3 for "Authenticating commands to change device firmware settings" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,679, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Authenticating commands to change device firmware settings" was invented by Tevin Jaupaul Richards (Spring, Texas), Erich Wolfgang Gerstacker McMillan (Spring, Texas), Mason Andrew Gunyuzlu (Spring, Texas), Robert Stephen Craig (Spring, Texas), Thomas George Swann (Spring, Texas) and Khoa Dang Huynh (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of electronic devices are described herein. In some examples, an electronic device includes a communication interface. In some examples, the electronic device includes a Basic Input/Output Syste...