ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,208, issued on June 24, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for updating software" was invented by Jan Pepke (Remseck A.N., Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for updating software stored in a memory. The memory is divided into sectors. The software is updated by the writing of data into the memory. The data for updating the software are written from an arrangement into a further memory, in which further memory the data are temporarily stored, until the amount of data written into the further memory reaches a specific value. After the value has been reached, the data written into the further m...