ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,811, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for updates during firmware authentication" was invented by Deepaganesh Paulraj (Bangalore, India), Rama Rao Bisa (Bangalore, India), Kala Sampathkumar (Bangalore, India), Mini Thottunkal Thankappan (Bangalore, India) and Hiren Kishorbhai Pitroda (Rajkot, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods update firmware during authentication of a hardware component of an IHS (Information Handling System), where firmware updates are managed by a remote access controller that provides remote management of the IHS. The remote access...