ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,868, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ethernovia Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data management using rapid program launch" was invented by Brian Arnold Petersen (San Francisco), Joseph Andonieh (Aurora, Canada) and Atul Prakash Agarwal (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein support or provide for rapid program launch, such as receiving a notification from a hardware unit; causing the hardware unit to load one or more working registers associated with the processor with the one or more parameters; launching the program that handles the notification based on the one or more parameters; generatin...