ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,076, issued on April 29, was assigned to Lenovo (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).
"Reversible virtual factory reset" was invented by Nathan J. Peterson (Oxford, N.C.), John Petersen (Morrisville, N.C.) and Gary Cudak (Raleigh, N.D.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes receiving a request for a boot into a system factory reset mode, accessing a virtual boot indication in an operating system memory area, identifying an address of a virtual boot user space memory area as a function of the virtual boot indication, and booting the system into the factory reset mode using the virtual boot user space ...