American Megatrends International Assigned Patent

American Megatrends International, LLC, Norcross, GA, has been assigned a patent (11,204,986) developed by Rao, Srinivasan N., Suwanee, GA, and Ramasubramanian, Karthika, Tamil Nadu, India, for “control of a prompt for a credential to unlock a storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Control of a prompt for a credential to unlock a computer-readable storage device is provided. Some embodiments permit identifying a component that encrypted the computer-readable storage device and, depending on the identified component, prompting for such a credential. One embodiment can determine that a firmware encrypted the computer-readable storage device and can prompt for a password, for example, to unlock the computer-readable storage device during a boot-up process performed by the firmware. Other embodiments can determine that an operating system encrypted the computer-readable storage device, and can avoid the presentation of a prompt for a password, for example, during a boot-up process performed by the firmware. The computer-readable storage device can be a self-encrypting drive (SED) or another type of disk drive.”

The patent application was filed on June 28, 2019 (16/456,759).