ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,067, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INTERNATIONAL LLC (Duluth, Ga.).
"Endorsement of devices in a processing system" was invented by Sachin Ganesh (Chennai, India), Ramesh R (Chennai, India) and Dhanaraj Velu (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A firmware executes upon power on of a processing system and identifies any memory devices present in the processing system. The firmware then obtains uniquely identifying information for the memory devices such as, for example, part numbers and serial numbers. If the boot is the first boot of the processing system, the firmware transmits the uniquely identifyi...