ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,416, issued on April 22, was assigned to ESW Holdings Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"System and method for diagnosing a computing device in safe mode" was invented by Amit Gross (Kfar-Saba, Israel) and Daniel Shachrur (Sde-Varburg, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method may cause a computing device to operate according to a selected operational mode. A diagnostic application may selectively execute one or more tests on the computing device; record a result of executing a test; and perform an action based on the result. An operational mode selected may be a safe mode that includes executing only a portion of an operating sys...