ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,783, issued on May 12, was assigned to STRATUS TECHNOLOGIES IRELAND LTD. (Ireland).

"System and methods of managing and recognizing PCI devices in an active system" was invented by Lei Cao (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In part, in one aspect, the disclosure relates to a method of enumerating a device relative to a computer system. The method may include sending, using a platform driver of an operating system (OS), a PCI memory range to self-enumeration (SE) firmware once it detects a new PCIe module; establishing a communication channel between the platform driver and SE firmware; detecting, using the platform driver...