US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI AUTOEVER on July 28 for "Method of reprogramming a boot area" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,868, issued on July 28, was assigned to HYUNDAI AUTOEVER CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of reprogramming a boot area" was invented by Sung Hwan Hyun (Seoul, South Korea), Kyo Min Kim (Seoul, South Korea), In Jung Won (Seoul, South Korea) and Sang Do An (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by an electronic control unit (ECU) includes: manipulating a boot area of an ECU so that the boot area is in an abnormal state; entering a boot strap loader (BSL) area of the ECU in response to detecting that the boot area is in an abnormal state upon resetting the ECU; determining whether to perform reprogrammi...