ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,091, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for non-interruptive update" was invented by Libo Cao Meyers (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein provide systems and methods for a non-interruptive software update for a device. In one implementation, a software update for a critical node of a node system network of a controller of the device is detected. The node system network utilizes a publisher-subscriber framework. The software update is installed, and the critical node continues to operate in the publisher-subscriber framework during the ...