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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2021
Applicant:

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park, SG;

Inventors:

John Weldon Nicholson, Cary, NC (US);

Daryl C. Cromer, Raleigh, NC (US);

Howard Locker, Cary, NC (US);

Mengnan Wang, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Assignee:

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park, SG;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 15/78 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0632 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 15/7882 (2013.01); G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G11C 16/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for technology management on a hardware component of a device at the time of assembly. An apparatus has a processor and memory storage that stores code executable by the processor. The processor obtains a feature of the hardware component to be removed from the hardware component and operates a virtual fuse that removes a data region associated with the hardware component and permanently removes access to the feature on the hardware component. In response to operating the virtual fuse to remove access to the feature, the processor may indicate the status of the feature on the hardware component.


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