ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,491, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"External weather conditions aware firmware updates" was invented by Palani Raja Zeavelou (Pondicherry, India), Santosh Gore (Bangalore, India), Gargi Priyadarshini (Tezpur, India), Rahul Ranjan (Dehradun, India), Rushyendra Velamuri (Bangalore, India) and Priti Parate (Nagpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes a storage and a processor. The storage stores a firmware update for a component of the information handling system. The processor receives a firmware update notification. The firmware update notification is ...