ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,984, issued on June 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Memory patching with associative and directly mapped patch data" was invented by Vinoth Kumar Deivasigamani (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and apparatuses for memory patching with associative and directly mapped patch data. In some aspects, a processor requests boot code stored at an address of a first region of an address map of a boot ROM. A boot ROM controller can determine, based on the address, that an associative record in a programmable memory includes address information matching the address. The controll...