ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,776, issued on March 24, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Information processing system and BIOS update method" was invented by Yusaku Morishige (Kanagawa, Japan), Ken Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuya Shibayama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Naoyuki Araki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system includes a server that assigns a signature of a server manager to a capsule file encapsulating a program of an extended function of a BIOS and provides the capsule file to an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a BIOS storage and a BIOS proce...