ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,742, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Bios-initialization-based capabilities configuration system" was invented by Douglas Lang Farley (Round Rock, Texas), Srinivas Giri Raju Gowda (Fremont, Calif.) and Trevor Christian Cockrell (Hutto, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A BIOS-initialization-based capabilities configuration system includes a computing device having a BIOS coupled to a plurality of capabilities subsystems. The BIOS begins initialization operations for the computing device, identifies a plurality of computing device capabilities software, and discovers capabilities of the plura...