US Patent Issued to HILL-ROM SERVICES on Dec. 23 for "Devices and methods for detecting errors during firmware updates" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,922, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to HILL-ROM SERVICES INC. (Batesville, Ind.).

"Devices and methods for detecting errors during firmware updates" was invented by Eric Benz (Batesville, Ind.), Ed Pizzella (Batesville, Ind.), Archana Vaidyanathan (Batesville, Ind.) and Rakesh Karunakaran (Batesville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a master control and one or more circuit boards. The master control receives an executable file containing software associated with circuit boards, extracts a piece of software from the executable file, determines whether a version of the piece of software is more desirable than a v...