ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,145, issued on July 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Telemetry generation for in-field hardware testing" was invented by Jacob Kappeler Oshins (Seattle) and Hari Angepat (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for capturing hardware telemetry includes a hardware component encoded with hardware logic for emitting a telemetry stream into memory of a computing device. The system further includes a hardware component driver stored in the memory that is configured to parse the telemetry stream, populate telemetry structures defined within a telemetry event schema based on values pa...