ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,539, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Virtual slot for firmware image" was invented by Gaurav Sinha (UnterschleiBheim, Germany) and Marco Redaelli (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques that provide a virtual slot for firmware images are described herein. A device includes a controller configured to execute a firmware image; erasable programmable read-only memory to store firmware images; and memory including instructions, which when executed by the controller, cause the controller to: store a temporary firmware image into a firmware memory, the temporary firmware image...