ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,129, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system with display panel crack and distortion detection" was invented by Craig Chaiken (Pflugerville, Texas), Ibrahim Sayyed (Georgetown, Texas) and Krishnaveni Sistu (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes a display panel, and a basic input/output system (BIOS) in communication with the display panel. The BIOS builds multiple quick response (QR) codes. The BIOS provides the multiple QR codes to the display panel. When displayed the multiple QR codes fill an entire display area of the dis...