ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,340, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Acer Inc. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Operating system restoration method and system using the same" was invented by Ming-Hao Kuo (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Hung-Ming Chang (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Hong-Jiun Wu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating system restoration method and a system using the same are disclosed. The method includes: establishing a connection between an external device and an electronic device; based on the connection, obtaining, by an agent program in the external device, first verification information from the electronic device; upload...