ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,304, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Firmware update techniques" was invented by Larry R. Seater (Portland, Ore.), Benjamin Cheong (Tigard, Ore.), Manishkumar T. Rana (Hillsboro, Ore.), Stephen A. Fife (Hillsboro, Ore.), James R. Hearn (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Kevin Liedtke (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a circuit board that includes a device, firmware memory, and a power controller. In some examples, the firmware memory is to store a firmware update and in response to a software-initiated command, the power controller is to reduce power to the ...