ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,948, issued on May 20, was assigned to Shenzhen Fulian Fugui Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Baseboard management controller module" was invented by Lin Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Wen-Xiao Lu (Shenzhen, China), Hui-Bo Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Zhi-Yu Deng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data center security control module able to connect with motherboards of different platforms such as Intel platform, AMD platform, and Ampere platform includes a baseboard management controller (BMC), a chip selection module, and a control module. The BMC outputs an alarm signal. The chip selection module includes N chi...