US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 4 for "Early boot debugging of hardware issues in a computing system" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,557, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Early boot debugging of hardware issues in a computing system" was invented by Kyle John Rupnow (Wheeling, Ill.), Gopi Krishna Tummala (San Jose, Calif.), Kang Yang (Campbell, Calif.), Ivan Hugh Mclean (Solana Beach, Calif.), Baranidharan Muthukumaran (Mountain View, Calif.) and Edwin Jose (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes apparatuses and techniques for enabling a user to authorize access to early boot debugging of hardware issues in a computing system. In general, responsive to a user consenting to early boot debugging, a debug...