US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Updates in an electronically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM)" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,919, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Updates in an electronically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM)" was invented by Hesam Zomorodi Moghadam (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Gabriel Maguire (Ferndale, Mich.) and Subramaniam Palaniappan (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer may store records at respective locations in the memory. The records may respectively include, for one of a plurality of variables, an identifier and a size. Responsive to a notification of a software update, the computer may retrieve from the memory a first map of the variables specifying their ...