ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,746, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Local storage access by out-of-band (OOB) processors in heterogeneous computing platforms" was invented by Adolfo S. Montero (Pflugerville, Texas), Abeye Teshome (Austin, Texas) and Alok Pant (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for local storage access by Out-of-Band (OOB) processors in heterogeneous computing platforms. In some embodiments, a heterogeneous computing platform may include an OOB Microcontroller Unit (MCU) and a memory coupled to the OOB MCU, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execu...