ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,626, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Updating firmware of a computing peripheral at a docking station" was invented by Srinivasa Ragavan Rajagopalan (Bangalore, India), Jyothi Bandakka Nanjappa (Bangalore, India), Gokul Thiruchengode Vajravel (Bangalore, India) and Mariappan Nachiappan (TamilNadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Updating a computing peripheral, including identifying, at an external computing device, a firmware update package associated with a particular computing peripheral; providing, by the external computing device and to a docking station communicatively coupled to t...