US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on Dec. 16 for "System and methods for firmware update mechanism" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,912, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"System and methods for firmware update mechanism" was invented by Ramacharan Sundararaman (San Jose, Calif.), Nithyananda Miyar (San Jose, Calif.), Richard Taylor (Eagle, Idaho) and James Eldredge (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new approach is proposed to support hardware-based update of a software (e.g., a firmware) of an electronic device in a non-functional state. Under the proposed approach, the software is stored securely on a resource (e.g., a non-volatile storge) protected by a hardware-based lock mechanism. A first agent acquires a l...