US Patent Issued to MITAC COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY on April 22 for "Method for blocking external boot device, non-transient computer readable storage medium, and computer" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,560, issued on April 22, was assigned to MITAC COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Method for blocking external boot device, non-transient computer readable storage medium, and computer" was invented by Ming-Chang Tu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for blocking an external boot device, a non-transient computer readable storage medium, and a computer are provided. The method includes: executing BIOS program code in a POST process, where the program code includes a BIOS setup menu, which includes a boot device option; hiding device information of an external boot device in the boot device option when ...