US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 10 for "Programming-enhanced baseboard management controller" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,575, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Programming-enhanced baseboard management controller" was invented by Bryan David Kelly (Carnation, Wash.) and Peishan Huang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein in which a programmable logic device (PLD) is integrated into a baseboard management controller (BMC). A programming-enhanced BMC is powered on by a PLD that is integrated into the programming-enhanced BMC and that is coupled to an internal bus of the programming-enhanced BMC. A configuration file is provided from immutable BMC hardware in ...