ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,083, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Out-of-band management method for storage apparatus, baseboard management controller and storage apparatus" was invented by Yufang Li (Xian, China), Bumjun Kim (Xian, China), Ning Li (Xian, China), Jae-Sang Yun (Suwon-si, South Korea), Liu Yang (Xian, China), Jaeheon Ma (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Ran Tan (Xian, China) and Jisook Han (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An out-of-band management method for a storage apparatus includes communicating with a micro controller unit of the storage apparatus by a baseboard managem...