ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,047, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Context aware redundant sourcing of basic input output system components to facilitate fault tolerant boot operations" was invented by Ranjan Kumar (Siliguri, India), Gowtham Moorthy (Namakkal, India) and Shekar Babu Suryanarayana (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A firmware management operation. The firmware management operation includes providing an information handling system with a distributed BIOS, the distributed BIOS including a BIOS component and a BIOS variable; identifying a processor environment installed on an information handlin...