US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 15 for "Firmware-based secure tenancy transfer" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,469, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Firmware-based secure tenancy transfer" was invented by Vishal Soni (Redmond, Wash.) and Bryan David Kelly (Carnation, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a stored counter value and a stored boot manifest including a manifest type flag. A manifest type of the boot manifest is determined based on the manifest type flag, a tenancy mode is determined based on a parity of the counter value, a first boot is executed if the manifest type is a first manifest type and the tenancy mode is a first tenancy mode, a second boot flow ...