ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,101, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Overlay code retrieval from a host system" was invented by Sridhar Prudviraj Gunda (Karnataka, India), Mani Raghavendra Aravapalli (Hyderabad, India) and Ritesh Tiwari (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for overlay code retrieval from a host system are described. A memory system may determine that a set of code for execution by a processor of the memory system is absent from an executable memory of the processor. The memory system may prevent the processor from retrieving the set of code from a non-volatile me...