US Patent Issued to Abbott Diabetes Care on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for revising permanent ROM-based programming" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,398, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for revising permanent ROM-based programming" was invented by Xuandong Hua (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kurt Leno (San Leandro, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application program stored in a ROM includes a function lookup data structure in which functions called by the application program have identifiers and memory addresses at which the function is located and can be executed. Upon startup, the function lookup data structure is copied to a RAM as a revised lookup data structure and is compared to a revision lookup data s...