ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,706, issued on July 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Firmware-based switching between user profiles in a heterogeneous computing platform" was invented by Daniel L. Hamlin (Round Rock, Texas), Srikanth Kondapi (Austin, Texas) and Nikhil Manohar Vichare (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for firmware-based switching between user profiles in a heterogenous computing platform. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System may include: a heterogeneous computing platform comprising a plurality of devices, and a memory coupled to the platform having a plur...