ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,266, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Splash screen management in preboot environments" was invented by Adolfo S. Montero (Pflugerville, Texas), Ibrahim Sayyed (Georgetown, Texas) and Laxmi Lavanya Medicherla (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for splash screen management in preboot environments. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include: a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the processor to: determine, by a Basic ...