ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,424, issued on April 15, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Cloud-based provisioning of UEFI-enabled systems" was invented by Syama Sundararao Nadiminti (Karnataka, India), Sriram Subramanian (Karnataka, India) and Sunil Malhotra (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of cloud-based provisioning of a computing system are disclosed. In an example, a baseboard management controller (BMC) of the computing system may be configured to establish a secure cloud provisioning connection between a cloud manager and the BMC. UEFI configuration may be received from the cloud manager over...