ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,735, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Dynamically updating firmware profile configurations on computing devices" was invented by Daini Xie (Redmond, Wash.), Wen-Ho Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yuwen Chou (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to utilizing a firmware configuration system to efficiently update a firmware profile configuration of computing devices (e.g., host devices in a datacenter). For example, the firmware configuration system facilitates updating the firmware profile configuration, such as for a Unified Extensible Firmware Int...