Quanta Computer Assigned Patent

Quanta Computer, Inc., Taoyuan, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,747,437) developed by Lai, Te-Hsien, Taoyuan, Taiwan, for a “SAS hard disk drive update via management controller.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Methods and systems of updating serial attached small computer system interface (SAS)/serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) hard disk drive(HDD) firmware (FW) using a management controller (MC) are provided. The method includes uploading the HDD FW to the MC via the local area network, LAN, breaking the HDD FW into a plurality of chunks, issuing a plurality of write commands and writing the plurality of chunks into the SAS HDD.”

The patent application was filed on May 2, 2017 (15/584,589).