ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,697, issued on May 12, was assigned to Moxa Inc. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Method for automatically updating firmware and host device using the same" was invented by Po-Hung Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chien-Yu Lai (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chi-Ting Chang (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Wei-Hsi Hsu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for automatically updating a firmware and a host device. The method includes: accessing, by the host device, a target firmware from at least one detachable I/O device connected with the host device; and updating, by the host device...