ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,394, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS (Rousset, France).

"Method for generating an update file and corresponding server device, updating method and corresponding client device, updating method and corresponding system" was invented by Yoann Bouvet (Opio, France) and Jean-Paul Coupigny (Cannes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server builds an update file to update software. The server compiles source code of an updated version of the software, generating a binary file of the updated version of the software. Memory locations are mapped to sections of the binary file based on mappings of sectio...