ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,290, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Revoked firmware rollback prevention" was invented by William C. Munger (Round Rock, Texas) and Mukund P. Khatri (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes multiple components including a first component. The first component includes a protected memory and a basic input/output system (BIOS). The protected memory stores a revoked versions list. The BIOS initializes a firmware update for a firmware image having a firmware version. The BIOS scans the revoked versions list for the firmware version of the firmware im...