US Patent Issued to Beken on Jan. 20 for "System and method for firmware update on execute-in-place (XIP) systems" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,461, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Beken Corp. (Shanghai).

"System and method for firmware update on execute-in-place (XIP) systems" was invented by Pujie Yang (Shanghai), Zhifu Liu (Shanghai) and Zhilei Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for firmware updates on Execute-in-Place (XIP) devices with multiple memory partitions is disclosed. Firmware files include instructions coded to one of the partitions, while another partition runs the active firmware. An address remapping technique redirects the fetching addresses in the instructions to the partition storing the active firmware, so the instructio...