ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,232, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Granular lockdown of operating system based firmware updates" was invented by Mukund P. Khatri (Austin, Texas) and William C. Munger (Round Rock, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes a protected memory that stores identifiers of locked down devices. The system receives a firmware update package for a device within the information handling system. The firmware update package includes a firmware update for the device. The system determines whether an identifier for the device is located within protected memory. If the i...