ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,366, issued on March 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Application-specific launch optimization" was invented by Kartik Venkatraman (San Francisco), David R. Cox (Kauai, Hawaii), Manish Chandra Reddy Ravula (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shardul S. Mangade (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments disclosed herein provide application-specific launch optimization. Aspects of the present disclosure include one or more cost functions for each application, where each cost function corresponds to a likelihood that a particular application should be placed into a particular pre-activation state. For ea...