ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,672, issued on April 7, was assigned to LENOVO (BEIJING) Ltd. (Beijing).
"System management software with system vital product data (SVPD) for comparing first and second server identity data" was invented by Ming Lei (Beijing), Fred Allison Bower III (Durham, N.C.), Caihong Zhang (Beijing) and Jihao Zhang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for replacing at least one hardware assembly of a data processing apparatus includes managing, by a system management software, the data processing apparatus with a service processor and a plurality of hardware assemblies, obtaining, by the system management software, first system con...