US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 21 for "Mainboard device and update method of basic input-output system thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,873, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Mainboard device and update method of basic input-output system thereof" was invented by Keng Hao Hsu (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan) and Che Min Liao (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mainboard device and an update method of the basic input-output system thereof are provided. The mainboard device includes a flash memory, a universal serial bus (USB) port, and a microprocessor. The code of the basic input-output system is stored in the flash memory. The USB port is connected to an external USB device, wherein the external ...