ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,048, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for resuming pre-boot and service operating system (SOS) applications" was invented by Ibrahim Sayyed (Georgetown, Texas), Balasingh P. Samuel (Round Rock, Texas) and Daniel L. Hamlin (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for resuming pre-boot and service Operating System (OS) applications are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include an Embedded Controller (EC), and a memory coupled to, or integrated into, the EC, where the memory comprises program instructions that...