US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on Sept. 2 for "Systems and methods for automatically updating system firmware" (New Mexico, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,781, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Systems and methods for automatically updating system firmware" was invented by Sung Nam Choi (Sandia Park, N.M.), John C. Pavlakos (Albuquerque, N.M.), Neil Sparks (Albuquerque, N.M.), Adrian R. Chavez (Davis, Calif.), Alan Sonntag (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Florentino Barrientos (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to secure firmware updating, a system comprises: one or more user devices, each of the one or more user devices having one or more firmware modules; one or more computing device...