ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,556, issued on July 8, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Suwanee, Ga.).

"Intelligent switching to a debug load operation for an electronic device" was invented by Carry Yu (Guangdong, China), Sara Lu (Guangdong, China) and Karen Dong (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, method, and computer-readable recording medium perform intelligent upgrade to a debug load operation in an electronic device. A key is set in advance via a Management Information Base (MIB), which defines execution of a debug load operation for the electronic device. When a debug load operation is requested, the electronic device ...