US Patent Issued to Intel on May 6 for "Firmware component with self-descriptive dependency information" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,182, issued on May 6, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Firmware component with self-descriptive dependency information" was invented by Vincent Zimmer (Federal Way, Wash.) and Jiewen Yao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of a semiconductor package apparatus may include technology to determine version information for a new firmware component, read dependency information corresponding to the firmware component, and determine if dependency is satisfied between the new firmware component and one or more other firmware components based on the version information and the dependency information of the...