US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Portable chip device and method for executing a software module update in a portable chip device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,110, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Portable chip device and method for executing a software module update in a portable chip device" was invented by Marcus Janke (Munich), Manfred Roth (Munich) and Stephan Miculcy (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable chip device comprises a chip having an operating system and a loader, the loader being configured to load a software module onto the chip and/or to render the software module in the chip executable, a communications interface configured to communicate with an external reader, the portable chip device being configured to carr...