ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,891, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Mitac Computing Technology Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Method for backing up configuration file" was invented by Hung-Ta Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Sheng-Min Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Po-Wei Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Ying-Jie Liu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for backing up a configuration file of a computer device is implemented by a baseboard management controller, and includes steps of: mounting a first partition, a second partition and a third partition of a flash memory storage device of the computer device; storing a copy of the configuration file in at least one of the ...