US Patent Issued to Lenovo (United States) on July 22 for "Methods, systems, and program products for securely blocking access to system operations and data" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,299, issued on July 22, was assigned to Lenovo (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Methods, systems, and program products for securely blocking access to system operations and data" was invented by Robert J. Kapinos (Durham, N.C.), Scott Li (Cary, N.C.), Robert James Norton Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.) and Russell Speight VanBlon (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for blocking input/output (I/O) access to a computing system. A method includes establishing a portion of the machine-readable instructions as sole controller of the system responsive to the machine-readable inst...