ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,174, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for serialized initialization circuitry" was invented by Richard Martin Born (Ft. Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed device includes initialization circuitry configured to perform an activity, with multiple phases, on multiple dies (e.g., a first die and a second die) within an integrated circuit. The initialization circuitry can be configured to serialize one or more phases of the activity across the dies by initiating a phase of the activity on the first die prior to initiating the phase of the ac...