US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 22 for "Platform-independent architecture for secure system reset" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,102, issued on July 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Platform-independent architecture for secure system reset" was invented by Karunakara Kotary (Vancouver, Wash.), Akram Hamdy (Redmond, Wash.), Pingfan Song (Newcastle, Wash.), Neeraj Ladkani (Bothell, Wash.) and Muhammad A. Ahmed (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform-independent method of securely resetting a processing device includes detecting a predefined trigger event by a baseboard management controller (BMC) that executes system firmware on behalf of a managed host. In response to the predefined trigger event, the s...