US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 13 for "Presenting boot partition as device firmware" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,855, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Presenting boot partition as device firmware" was invented by Anand Joshi (Round Rock, Texas), Daniel Hamlin (Round Rock, Texas) and Ibrahim Sayyed (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system scans an extensible firmware interface system partition for a file path. If the file path is missing, the system determines information associated with the file path, and adds an entry in an extensible firmware interface system resource table based on the information associated with the file path."

The patent was filed on July 31, ...