ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,203, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Firmware upgrade method of network storage and network storage" was invented by Zhou Si (Suwon-si, South Korea), Fan Shen (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ning Li (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A firmware upgrade method of a network storage includes inquiring, by the network storage, about a latest firmware version for the network storage from a firmware upgrade platform through a network, and based on the latest firmware version being inconsistent with a current firmware version of the network storage, downloading, by the...