ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,502, issued on March 31, was assigned to AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INTERNATIONAL LLC (Duluth, Ga.).

"Multi-user remote firmware development and debugging system" was invented by Muthukumar Sathiyanesan (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-user remote firmware development and debugging system includes multiple computing systems under test ("SUTs") that include a serial data communication interface and a serial peripheral interface ("SPI") flash emulator. The system also includes a host computer coupled to the SPI flash emulators and the serial data communication interfaces. The host can receive firmware debugging message...