ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,079, issued on May 26, was assigned to Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Operating system startup method, apparatus, and electronic device" was invented by Zhenghao Gu (Beijing), Shijian Ge (Beijing), Yongji Xie (Beijing), Lei Yu (Beijing), Shuai Yuan (Beijing), Xiaohan Xu (Beijing), Xiaobo Yan (Beijing), Yongsu Zhang (Beijing), Yu Zhang (Beijing) and Jian Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an operating system startup method, apparatus and electronic device. A specific implementation of the method comprises: determining at least one target mirror server fr...