US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 18 for "Techniques for restricted deployment of targeted processor firmware updates" (Oregon, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,269, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Techniques for restricted deployment of targeted processor firmware updates" was invented by Chinmay Ashok (Beaverton, Ore.), Vasudevan Srinivasan (Portland, Ore.), Atanas K. Iwanow (Hillsboro, Ore.), Martin G. Dixon (Portland, Ore.), Scott J. Cape (Portland, Ore.), Scott Bobholz (Bolton, Mass.), David T. Mayo (Boxborough, Mass.), Vinila Rose (Cupertino, Calif.), Lorie Wigle (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Jason Kennedy (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for restricted deployment of targeted processor firmware updates. During a patch e...