US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Singapore) on Dec. 9 for "Authorizing modifications of protected UEFI variables" (Brazilian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,699, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Authorizing modifications of protected UEFI variables" was invented by Rafael Rodrigues Machado (Sorocaba, Brazil), Igor Stolbikov (Apex, N.C.), Scott Wentao Li (Cary, N.C.) and Denis Leite Gomes (Campinas, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method, the method including: receiving, from a device and utilizing a variable modification system, a request to make a modification to content of a protected unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) variable; verifying, using the variable modification system, an entity utilizing the...