US Patent Issued to Mitac Computing Technology on May 6 for "Method of updating BMC firmware of a server" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,175, issued on May 6, was assigned to Mitac Computing Technology Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Method of updating BMC firmware of a server" was invented by Chih-Peng Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of updating firmware of a BMC of a server, the server includes the BMC and a PLD, the method includes: in response to receipt of a firmware update instruction to update the firmware of the BMC, the BMC storing in the PLD a firmware configuration file that contains current settings; the BMC updating the firmware after storing the firmware configuration file in the PLD; the BMC being reset after updating the firmwa...