ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,252, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Terminal firmware startup method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Haitao Nie (Beijing), Shijian Ge (Beijing), Xiaohan Xu (Beijing), Liang Peng (Beijing), Yu Zhang (Beijing) and Jian Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a terminal firmware startup method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The startup method includes: replacing a target feature program in initial firmware with a target loader to obtain target firmware; loading hardware code...