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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2022
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., Pullman, WA (US);
Ian Olson, Pullman, WA (US);
Huba Leidenfrost, Moscow, ID (US);
John D. Prestwich, Moscow, ID (US);
Ryan Lowell Hendrickson, Spokane, WA (US);
Jennice Rinderknecht, Coupland, TX (US);
Aaron Taylor, Round Rock, TX (US);
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., Pullman, WA (US);
Abstract
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 initialization of an operating system (OS) on the electronic device has not been performed. The processor waits to receive a user input indicating that the user is ready to initialize the OS, thus protecting the OS initialization process from unintended interruptions such as power loss that can cause the OS initialization to fail irreparably. Upon receiving the user input, the processor begins the OS initialization.