US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 19 for "Methods and apparatus to increase boot performance by categorizing boot tasks" (Indian, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,430, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to increase boot performance by categorizing boot tasks" was invented by Subrata Banik (Bangalore, India), Rajaram Regupathy (Bangalore, India), Vincent Zimmer (Issaquah, Wash.) and Julius Mandelblat (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to increase boot performance are disclosed. An example apparatus including instructions stored in the apparatus; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: during a boot process: identify a boot task that is to be performed dur...