ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,227, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Bios protection using request interception and approval of bios modifications" 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 modification interception and approval. One method comprises, by an entity associated with an operating system of a device, obtaining a request to perform a reboot and/or a shutdown of the processing device; determining, prior to performing the reb...