ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,051, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INTERNATIONAL LLC (Duluth, Ga.).

"Dynamic platform selection and sensor management" was invented by Anurag Bhatia (Sugar Hill, Ga.), Winston Thangapandian (Suwanee, Ga.), Pravinash Jeyapaul (Johns Creek, Ga.), Venkatesan Balakrishnan (Chennai, India) and Chitrak Gupta (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a BMC. The BMC detects a platform type of a modular hardware system. The BMC searches for platform-specific files in a storage of the BMC based o...