US Patent Issued to Intel on Jan. 13 for "Rollback of processor microcode updates in runtime without system reboot" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,548, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Rollback of processor microcode updates in runtime without system reboot" was invented by Pratim Bose (Kolkata, India), Karunakara Kotary (Portland, Ore.), Kausik Ghosh (Bangalore, India) and Arun Hodigere (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for updates and rollbacks of firmware patches in a computing system during runtime are provided. A processor includes one or more intellectual property (IP) blocks; a secure patch memory to store a first firmware patch in a primary patch region and a second firmware patch in a secondary patch regio...