ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,196, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Component firmware replacements via networks" was invented by Kang-Ning Feng (Taipei, Taiwan), Ming-Chang Hung (Taipei, Taiwan) and Wei-Chih Huang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example non-transitory machine-readable medium includes recovery instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to detect a corruption of first installed instructions of first component firmware at a computing device and second installed instructions of second component firmware at the computing device. In response to detection...