US Patent Issued to Oracle International on June 9 for "Dynamically configurable motherboard" (North Carolina, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,932, issued on June 9, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Dynamically configurable motherboard" was invented by Sumeet Kochar (Cary, N.C.) and Buddy Duane Lumpkin (Puyallup, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to certain implementations, a motherboard is provided that enables operation as either multiple independent single-processor systems or a single multiple-processor system. In response to a request to configure the motherboard as multiple independent single-processor systems, a control block is implemented for each processor attached to the motherboard, where the control blocks config...