ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,623, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Execution of measure command for firmware update and firmware update" was invented by Joonhyung Hwangbo (Seongnam Si, South Korea), Jihoon Kim (Seongnam Si, South Korea) and Hyunji Kim (Seongnam Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example firmware update method of an image forming apparatus includes receiving a command file including a measure command, a patch file, and a firmware file for firmware update, based on an automatic firmware update menu being selected, generating a command table including an execution order of the me...