ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,381, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ASPEED Technology Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Event reporting method, security management circuit, and management system" was invented by Chin-Ting Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Wei Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hung Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An event reporting method, a security management circuit, and a management system are provided. The management system includes first, second, and third security management circuits. The first security management circuit and the second security management are respectively located at a first layer and a second layer of a hierarchy structure...