US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on July 7 for "Systems and methods for firmware password management" (New York, New Jersey, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,852, issued on July 7, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for firmware password management" was invented by Rocco Demasi (Nanuet, N.Y.), Jason M. Iannelli (Township of Washington, N.J.), Ronald L. Bland (Woodstock, Ga.), Michael McGuinness (Hilliard, Ohio), Lori L. Crimmins (Holly, Mich.), Michael L. Bowman (London, Ohio), Daniel J. Pfennig (Brockport, N.Y.) and Kevin R. Garrison (Wesley Chapel, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for managing a firmware password of a User Equipment (UE) are provided. In an example, the UE...