ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,914, issued on May 27, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Updating application code" was invented by Tony R. Masimore (Newportville, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for updating a settop box (STB) architecture that can be used to immediately update a device without requiring the device to be reset/restarted. The device may be any type of device that simultaneously supports multiple applications. The architecture may be used to update one of the applications with new functionality in a seamless manner that allows the applications including the one application to continue to operate...