US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on May 20 for "Component access to ROM-stored firmware code over firmware controller exposed virtual ROM link" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,952, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Component access to ROM-stored firmware code over firmware controller exposed virtual ROM link" was invented by Glen Douglas Dower (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Peter Seiler (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A read-only memory (ROM) stores firmware code for a hardware component. A firmware controller is directly physically connected to the hardware component and to the ROM. The firmware controller exposes a virtual ROM link to the hardware component. The hardware component accesses the firmware code over the virtual ROM link expo...