ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,056, issued on April 29, was assigned to BULL SAS (Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France).

"Method for designing a firmware, firmware obtained by such a method and method for modifying such a firmware" was invented by Florent Chabaud (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a computer implemented method for designing a firmware including writing the firmware version, and providing the firmware version with a version data identifying the firmware version. The method also includes providing the firmware version with a second data, called rollback data, the second data provided to be compared to the version data of other ver...