ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,556, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Driver hot swap for servicing kernel-mode drivers" was invented by Cody Dean Hartwig (Seattle), Drew Douglas Cross (Bothell, Wash.), Raz Meir Aloni (Seattle), Minsang Kim (Bellevue, Wash.), Yevgeniy M Bak (Redmond, Wash.), Shen Wang (Sammamish, Wash.), Candace Williams (Stafford, Wash.), Kyle James Philistine (Seattle), Yinghan Yang (Sammamish, Wash.) and Jason Stewart Wohlgemuth (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented in a computer system involving a processor system includes loading a first version of a driver into mem...