ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,628, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Data transmission method and apparatus thereof" was invented by Cheng-Huan Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Tzu-Wen Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmission method is provided. The data transmission method may include the following steps. A first memory of a master microcontroller (MCU) of an apparatus may store an encrypted header and firmware data associated with a slave MCU of the apparatus. The encrypted header may include information corresponding to the firmware data, and the firmware data may include a plurality of firmware block...