ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,019, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Smart surveillance service in pre-boot for quick remediations" was invented by Shekar Babu Suryanarayana (Bangalore, India), Sagar Alatgi (Pune, India) and Aniket Surekar (Nanded, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system may include a host central processing unit (CPU); and a non-CPU processing unit. The information handling system may be configured to, during execution of a pre-boot environment: perform boot tasks on the host CPU; and perform diagnostic tasks on the non-CPU processing unit. The non-CPU processing unit may be a...