US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Feb. 4 for "Device to build programs on alternative CPU architectures and a method thereof" (American, Irish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,051, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Device to build programs on alternative CPU architectures and a method thereof" was invented by Ian McLeod (Chicago), Eric Curtin (Dublin) and Pierre-Yves Chibon (Puteaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Universal Serial Bus (USB) device configured to build a program, in a host machine, on an alternative CPU architecture. The USB device comprises a USB interface adapted to be communicatively coupled to the host machine. The USB device further comprises a memory module configured to store a package to build on, in the host machine, the alternative CPU archite...