US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 24 for "Boot process with core isolation" (New York, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,474, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Boot process with core isolation" was invented by Luke Hopkins (Peterborough, N.H.), Michael James Becht (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Ying-Yeung Li (Pleasant Valley, N.Y.) and Clinton E. Bubb (Milton, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments herein describe techniques for implementing enhanced boot processing of an embedded compute complex including a plurality of cores. Disclosed embodiments enable isolating the plurality of cores of the embedded compute complex from other components of a computing system when the cores are released ...