ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,860, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for multi-modal firmware updates" was invented by Deepaganesh Paulraj (Bangalore, India), Mahesh Babu Ramaiah (Bangalore, India), Rama Rao Bisa (Bangalore, India), Pavan Kumar Gavvala (Bangalore, India), Manjunath Am (Bangalore, India) and Naveen Karthick Chandrasekaran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide multi-modal based updates to firmware utilized by a hardware component of an IHS (Information Handling System), where the firmware updates are managed by a remote access controller of the IHS th...