ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,402, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Wistron NeWeb Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Firmware update application installing method and embedded device thereof" was invented by Shang-Peng Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Cheng-Jung Wen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wen-Jin Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A firmware update application installing method for installing a firmware update application to a mobile device is implemented in an embedded device. The embedded device stores a plurality of the firmware update applications and a distinguishing program. The firmware update applications conform to a plurality of file formats, respectiv...