US Patent Issued to Siemens Industry, Siemens on Aug. 11 for "System and method for firmware or software updates including cost-benefit analysis" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,044, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens Industry Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Siemens AG (Munich).

"System and method for firmware or software updates including cost-benefit analysis" was invented by Daniel Feldman (New York), Nico Fritsch (Forchheim, Germany) and Marlene Biehl (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for a firmware update includes an industrial device, such as an electric vehicle charging device, with firmware, a central server with an interface configured to collect and process data from a data source, a network, wherein the industrial device and the central server are configured to communicate via th...