US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 9 for "Accelerating system boot times via host-managed device memory" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,410, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Accelerating system boot times via host-managed device memory" was invented by Kevin Yufu Li (Shanghai), Zhenfu Chai (Shanghai), Lei Zhu (Shanghai), Junjie He (Shanghai), Shijie Liu (Shanghai) and Tao Xu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that initializes a host-managed device memory (HDM) as a temporary proxy for a system memory, wherein the HDM is associated with an accelerator. The technology also creates a shadow copy of boot firmware code in the HDM and executes one or more boot instructions...