US Patent Issued to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories on Dec. 16 for "Basic input/output system (BIOS) boot check" (Washington, Texas, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,938, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Basic input/output system (BIOS) boot check" was invented by Ian Olson (Pullman, Wash.), Huba Leidenfrost (Moscow, Idaho), John D. Prestwich (Moscow, Idaho), Ryan Lowell Hendrickson (Spokane, Wash.), Jennice Rinderknecht (Coupland, Texas) and Aaron Taylor (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a processor that performs a basic input/output system (BIOS) process to initialize hardware of the electronic device upon a first start up. The processor determines, within the BIOS process, that initializ...