ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,130, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Method for secure, efficient startup of hyper-converged systems using hybrid centralization" was invented by James A. Marek (Anamosa, Iowa) and John D Martin (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for utilizing a boot prefetch module is disclosed, such as a hyperconverged system with centralized storage. The system may include a controller. The controller may include one or more processors configured to execute program instructions causing the one or more processors to perform a parallelized boot of a plurality of nodes. The perfor...