US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 11 for "Firmware policy enforcement via a security processor" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,814, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Firmware policy enforcement via a security processor" was invented by Nazmus Sakib (Seattle), Bryan David Kelly (Carnation, Wash.), Ling Tony Chen (Bellevue, Wash.) and Peter David Waxman (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein are directed to firmware policy enforcement of a computing device. For example, a security processor of the computing device is utilized to boot the computing device. During a boot session, the security processor loads and executes specialized firmware. The specialized firmware, when execu...