ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,088, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Moxa Inc. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method of performing full firmware update procedure on embedded electronic device and related embedded electronic device" was invented by Ching-Hung Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Kun-Lung Liao (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When performing full firmware update procedure on an electronic device, a full firmware update file is divided into multiple pieces of update data and then arranged into a first and a second sub update files, a header file associated with the sizes of each sub update file is created, and the header file and the two sub u...