ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,956, issued on March 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Method and apparatus for firmware patching" was invented by Nivedita Aggarwal (Portland, Ore.), Prashant Dewan (Portland, Ore.), Subrata Banik (Bangalore, India), Ofir Shwartz (Haifa, Israel), Baiju V. Patel (Portland, Ore.), Yazan Siam (Beaverton, Ore.), Kumar Dwarakanath (Folsom, Calif.) and Vincent Zimmer (Issaquah, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of handling a firmware update for a device is disclosed, comprising: determining a device to be in an updatable state; setting the device into an updating state after determining the updatable sta...