US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 23 for "Methods and apparatus to boot from block devices" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,997, issued on June 23, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to boot from block devices" was invented by Sriramakrishnan Govindarajan (Bangalore, India), Mihir Narendra Mody (Bangalore, India), Prithvi Shankar Yeyyadi Anantha (Bangalore, India), Shailesh Ghotgalkar (Bengaluru, India) and Kedar Chitnis (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device includes a first interface configured to couple to a first memory that is configured to store an image that includes a set of slices; a second interface configured to couple to a second memory; and a direct memory access circuit coupled...