ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,224, issued on April 14, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Colo.).
"Non-terminating firmware update" was invented by Thomas Werner Kuehnel (Seattle), Sunil Vikram Soman (Seattle), Amith Kumar Nuggehalli Ramachandra (Redmond, Wash.), Bing Zheng (Issaquah, Wash.) and Zachary Hawk Berkshire (Lexington, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device of the control plane may disconnect a server from at least one of a network path or a first boot storage device, the server having an initial network address. The computing device of the control plane may store a server state of the server in a storage device...