US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 14 for "Display pre-operating system content with multiplexer-less discrete thunderbolt" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,012, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Display pre-operating system content with multiplexer-less discrete thunderbolt" was invented by Ken Nicholas (Leander, Texas), Ivan Guerra (Round Rock, Texas), William D. Leara (Round Rock, Texas) and Ahsan Habib (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system sets, in response to a power event, a discrete graphics processing unit to transmit graphics data to an external display monitor and an internal display panel. In response to determining that a hybrid graphics mode is enabled and that a video driver has been loaded, ...