ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,233, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Bios protection using bios update suppression" was invented by Tomer Shachar (Beer Sheva, Israel), Ophir Buchman (Raanana, Israel) and Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for basic input/output system (BIOS) protection using BIOS update suppression. One method comprises receiving, by an operating system of a processing device comprising a BIOS chip having a first BIOS version, a request to suppress a pending BIOS update; and suppressing an application of the pending BIOS update, in response to the request...