ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,258, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Absolute Software Corp. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Techniques for recovering from boot failures over a computer network" was invented by Eric Wheatley (Greenwood Village, Colo.), Jeffrey Bush (Murphy, Texas), Eugene Khoruzhenko (Vancouver, Canada), Pradeep Surgimath (Vancouver, Canada), Marcel Laforce (Vancouver, Canada), John Herrema (Vancouver, Canada), Christy Wyatt (Vancouver, Canada), Samir Sherif (Princeton, N.J.) and Nicholas B Van Someren (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include techniques for booting/rebooting a client device and a client device in a client/se...