ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,487, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Quick start method" was invented by Jianguo Chen (Shenzhen, China), Lei Dai (Shenzhen, China) and Yangyang Jiang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a quick start method. When a software fault occurs in a device, a restart request is called through a customized interface that complies with an instruction set specification, to indicate firmware to restart system software; and an image of the system software such as an operating system, a hypervisor, or a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) is loaded to restar...