US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI AUTOEVER on Nov. 25 for "Firmware update method of a flash bootloader in a micro controller unit for a vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,495, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HYUNDAI AUTOEVER CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Firmware update method of a flash bootloader in a micro controller unit for a vehicle" was invented by JaeHyun Lim (Seoul, South Korea), YoungJin Yun (Seoul, South Korea) and YongSeong Jeon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of updating firmware by a flash bootloader includes: storing current version information included in a trailer block of firmware stored in a flash memory, the firmware including the trailer block and a header block; erasing a sector in which the header block is located while maintaining a sector in which...