US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 16 for "Hybrid firmware-first/operating-system-first error handling system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,005, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Hybrid firmware-first/operating-system-first error handling system" was invented by Scott Michael Ramsey (Cedar Park, Texas), Wei Liu (Austin, Texas) and David Keith Chalfant (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid firmware-first/operating-system-first error handling system includes a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) subsystem coupled to a processing system. The BIOS subsystem begins an initialization process for a computing device and, in response, configures the processing system to perform processing system firmware-first error handli...