US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Nov. 3 for "Initial scalable filesystem for initializing operating systems" (Irish, Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,249, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Initial scalable filesystem for initializing operating systems" was invented by Eric Curtin (Dublin), Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland), Alexander Larsson (Stockholm) and Daniel Walsh (Augusta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides devices, systems, methods, and techniques for booting up an operating system with an initial scalable filesystem. An example method includes loading, from a non-transitory and non-volatile memory, a bootloader into a random access memory (RAM). The method includes loading, by the bootloader, a kernel into the RAM. T...