ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,979, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for mount point context detection during a firmware update process" was invented by Raveendra Babu Madala (Bangalore, India), Santosh Gore (Bangalore, India), Manasa H (Palamaner, India) and Vineet Maheshwari (Howrah, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system and method to detect a mount context of a firmware update image, and dynamically change an update sequence of the update process so that some, most, or all components may be successfully updated. According to one embodiment, an Info...