ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,807, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for boot and shutdown synchronization of server operating system and component operating system" was invented by Deepaganesh Paulraj (Bangalore, India) and Lee E. Ballard (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one or more embodiments, a server may have a server operating system (OS) and a component with a component OS. During a boot process, embodiments may ensure the server OS does not boot until after the component OS boots. During a shutdown process, embodiments may ensure the server OS does not shut down until after the ...