ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,976, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hybrid boot for system reimaging" was invented by Jade Megan DSouza (Seattle), Alexey Altoukhov (Carnation, Wash.), Andrew Micheal Relyea (Seattle), Sun Kim Davey (Auburn, Wash.), Donghoon Park (Sammamish, Wash.), Haris Farhan Mohammad (Kirkland, Wash.), Oleg Surmachev (Arlington, Wash.), Vishwa Shobhit Sahay (Redmond, Wash.) and Alexander Geoffrey Howells (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for employing a hybrid boot to reimage a target device using a m...