ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,342, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Diagnosing power state transition failures in a heterogeneous computing platform" was invented by Adolfo S. Montero (Pflugerville, Texas), Amit K. Tiwari (Austin, Texas) and Ibrahim Sayyed (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include an Information Handling System (IHS) that is adapted to address power state transition failures by an IHS. An Embedded Controller (EC) of the IHS detects a request for the IHS to transition to a low-power operating state, such as a modern standby power state. The EC monitors for progress of the...