US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Feb. 10 for "Incremental booting of functions for autonomous and semi-autonomous systems and applications" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,172, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Incremental booting of functions for autonomous and semi-autonomous systems and applications" was invented by Vito Magnanimo (Munich) and Elliot Simon (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, incremental booting of functions for autonomous systems and applications is described herein. Systems and methods are disclosed that boot functions of a machine using different phases in order to more quickly provide at least a portion of the functions without compromising the safety of the machine. For example, during a first phase, resources asso...