ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,617, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"System and method for selectively reverting bios settings" was invented by Rafael Rodrigues Machado (Sorocaba, Brazil), Nathan Peterson (Oxford, N.C.), Scott Wentao Li (Cary, N.C.) and Igor Stolbikov (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes receiving a change to a first BIOS (basic input/output system) setting on a computer, maintaining a record of the first BIOS setting prior to the change, rebooting the computer to effect the change the first BIOS setting, detecting that an operating system did not successfull...