ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,790, issued on March 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Automotive electronic control unit pre-booting for improved man machine interface performance" was invented by Gil Golov (Backnang, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices and methods for improving the pre-booting of electronic control unit devices in vehicles. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising detecting a triggering of a pre-booting condition based on one or more interactions with a vehicle; transmitting a power-on signal to at least one electronic control unit (ECU) in the vehicle, the at least one ECU operating ...