US Patent Issued to Absolute Software on March 25 for "Binary image publication by firmware" (Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,227, issued on March 25, was assigned to Absolute Software Corp. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Binary image publication by firmware" was invented by Eugene Khoruzhenko (Redmond, Wash.) and Jeffrey Michael Bush (Wylie, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple binary images stored in the firmware of an electronic device are written to the device's configuration tables during booting of the device, where one of the binary images is a manager binary. During booting, the manager binary is saved to the file system of the operating system such that it automatically executes upon completion of booting. The manager binary then deploys the other...