ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,235, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).
"Iterative boot queue" was invented by Erez Koelewyn (Markham, Canada) and Kamraan Nasim (Markham, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for efficiently performing a bootup operation are described. In various implementations, an integrated circuit includes at least one or more processors and on-chip memory. The on-chip memory has a higher security level than off-chip memory. One of the one or more processors is designated as a security processor. During the processing of the multiple boot steps of a bootup operation, the security proce...