ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,477, issued on April 21, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).

"Micro-controller and management method for executing on-the-air (OTA) updated firmware" was invented by Chung-Hsiang Hsieh (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro-controller for executing over-the-air updated firmware is provided to access an external memory. The external memory stores a first program code and a second program code. The micro-controller includes a bus, a control circuit, and a management circuit. The control circuit sends an access command to the bus. The management circuit receives an access com...