US Patent Issued to Nvidia on April 21 for "Multi-function UEFI driver with update capabilities" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,480, issued on April 21, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-function UEFI driver with update capabilities" was invented by Siamak Nazari (Mountain View, Calif.), Dana Myers (Mountain View, Calif.), Roopesh Tamma (San Ramon, Calif.), Stuart Davies (Fremont, Calif.) and William Price (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver, e.g., a UEFI driver (140), for a device (120) in a host (110) starts before an OS boot. The driver (140) provides functions including gathering information regarding the host system (110), directing the device (120) to transmit the gathered information to a cloud-based servi...