US Patent Issued to Mitac Computing Technology on May 6 for "Method for managing passwords for basic input/output system and baseboard management controller" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,958, issued on May 6, was assigned to Mitac Computing Technology Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Method for managing passwords for basic input/output system and baseboard management controller" was invented by Wen-Ching Tsai (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing passwords for a BIOS and a BMC is implemented by a computer including a processor, a BMC, a platform controller hub (PCH), a first non-volatile memory and a second non-volatile memory. The BMC stores a BMC password, the first non-volatile memory stores a BIOS password, and the second non-volatile memory stores a first string and a second string. The ...