ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,432, issued on May 13, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).
"Method and data structure for updating firmware" was invented by Tzu-Lan Shen (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for updating firmware is provided. The method includes dividing the firmware into a plurality of sections, and assigning the sections to a plurality of block segments. The method includes generating a firmware chain by generating a series of blocks corresponding to the block segments and creating links between the blocks, and publishing the block segments onto the firmware chain. The method includes obtain...