ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,629, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Live firmware update switchover" was invented by Sira Parasurama Rao (Richmond, Texas) and Baskaran Chidambaram (Tamil Nadu, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a microcontroller, a live firmware update (LFU) command from an external host; and downloading, by the microcontroller, an image of a new version of firmware responsive to the LFU command. During a first time period, the method includes initializing only variables contained in the new version that are not contained in an old version of firmware. During a second time peri...