ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,101, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Method and system to extend CMOS battery life" was invented by Derric Christopher Hobbs (Round Rock, Texas) and Eric N. Sendelbach (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system main board CMOS is powered by a CMOS battery, such as to keep a real time clock during a power off state, with the battery ground passed through a ground pad so that ground to the CMOS is incomplete until a coupling device, such as a screw, couples the main board to an information handling system housing. A bi-stable relay couples to the main board b...