ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,415, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Management and recovery of peripheral devices during host system crashes" was invented by Pavan Kumar Gavvala (Bangalore, India), Sandesh Hadhimane Balakrishna (Bangalore, India) and Ajeesh Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing a peripheral device of a data processing system are disclosed. When a data processing system crashes, all hardware components of the data processing system including any connected peripheral devices are abruptly shut down as a result of the crash. These components may still be running ...