US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 12 for "Real-time validation of microcode updates" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,702, issued on May 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Real-time validation of microcode updates" was invented by Michael E Gildein (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) and Tabari Alexander (Hyde Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Real-time validation of microcode updates may include: executing a workload on at least one first processor having a first version of a microcode instruction set; executing the workload on at least one second processor having a second version of a microcode instruction set, wherein the second version of the microcode instruction set comprises an update of the first version o...