US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 14 for "Systems and methods to initiate device recovery" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,714, issued on July 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods to initiate device recovery" was invented by Neeraj Ladkani (Bothell, Wash.) and Mark Andrew Shaw (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The methods and systems provide remote device recovery using a sideband communication path in response to an error occurring in the device. A management entity sends a sideband communication using the sideband communication path to a logic circuit in communication with the device. The logic circuit initiates the recovery of the device."

The patent was filed on Dec. 30, 2021, u...