ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,957, issued on March 17, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Firmware update process" was invented by Abhishek Das (Mississauga, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A master device may transfer firmware data for installation on a slave device to the slave device at a data transfer rate. The master device may receive, from the slave device, information indicative of one or more errors in the firmware data received at the slave device. The master device may adjust the data transfer rate responsive to the information indicative of the one or more errors, for instance to increase or decrease the data transfer rate based the...