US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Sept. 2 for "BIOS action request for authorized application" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,063, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"BIOS action request for authorized application" was invented by Endrigo Nadin Pinheiro (Spring, Texas), Joshua Serratelli Schiffman (Bristol, Great Britain), Richard Alden Bramley Jr. (Mansfield, Mass.) and Valiuddin Ali (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a computing device with a basic input/output system (BIOS) comprising BIOS settings that are to be changed by BIOS actions. An application may request a BIOS action to change a BIOS setting. Using a received key from the BIOS, a processor of th...