ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,416, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Kernel reboot method" was invented by Ling Zhu (Beijing) and Yan Sang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a kernel reboot method, to reserve an internal memory for storing an entry address of a physical code and a code segment for the physical core. A kernel hotswap scenario is used as an example. When a computer system stops executing an old kernel, an interrupt is sent to the physical core, so that the physical core enters a busy waiting state. When the computer system starts a new kernel, the entry address of the...