ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,898, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Quanta Computer Inc. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).
"System and method for reducing computing service downtime during firmware inspection and update processes" was invented by Wei-Yu Chien (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system includes a central processing unit (CPU), a baseboard management controller (BMC) coupled to the CPU via a first communication protocol, and a boot non-volatile memory. The BMC includes a first communication protocol controller, a BMC memory, a root of trust, and an internal BMC bus. The internal BMC bus is configured to communicatively couple t...