ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,258, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUANTA COMPUTER INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Systems and methods for efficient transfer of data to a baseboard management controller" was invented by Chun-Hsien Chiang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Ming-Heng Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Huang-Ren Ou (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Shih-Hsuan Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system includes a memory storing basic input output system (BIOS) firmware, and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to execute the BIOS firmware to store current data associated with the computing system in the memory device. The current d...