US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 3 for "System management mode (SMM) error handler" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,412, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System management mode (SMM) error handler" was invented by Pannerkumar Rajagopal (Bangalore, India), Santhosh Raghuram Krishnaswamy (Coimbatore, India), Siddhartha Selvaraj (Coimbatore, India), Anshul Soni (Mandsaur, India) and Toby Zimmerman (Forest Grove, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology describe herein includes upon entering a mode of a processor that is not visible to an operating system (OS), setting a flag indicating entry into the mode and saving an identifier (ID) of an error causing entry into the mode; and responsive to a system res...