ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,440, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Insyde Software Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"System and method for firmware security event mitigation" was invented by Timothy Andrew Lewis (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing security event mitigation with firmware are discussed. A firmware-based security event framework receives notifications of security events occurring in a firmware-controlled operating environment on a computing platform, logs information related to the event and optionally performs mitigation operations to address the security event."
The patent was filed on May 9, 202...