ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,934, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Decoupling silicon initialization and bootloader by providing silicon initialization service" was invented by Di Zhang (Shanghai), Sarathy Jayakumar (Portland, Ore.), Vincent Zimmer (Issaquah, Wash.), Fei Li (Shanghai), Bo He (Shanghai), Zhuangzhi Li (Shanghai), Zhi Jin (Shanghai), Lin Chen (Huaihua, China) and Guomin Jiang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device is disclosed, including a first set of processor cores including at least one processor core and a second set of processor cores including at least one processor core. The electro...