ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,780, issued on June 10, was assigned to LENOVO GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY (UNITED STATES) INC. (Morrisville, N.C.).
"Boot process monitoring" was invented by Caihong Zhang (Shanghai) and Fred Allison Bower III (Durham, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of boot process monitoring include receiving, by a service processor, a notice that a boot process for a server has started, monitoring a video buffer of a console of the server, and identifying, based on the monitoring, a potential error in the boot process."
The patent was filed on June 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/331,393.
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