US Patent Issued to Siemens on Feb. 10 for "System and method for reliable over-the-air firmware updates" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,393, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"System and method for reliable over-the-air firmware updates" was invented by Daniel Feldman (New York), Christopher Mullis (Smynra, Ga.) and Christian Feininger (Schwabach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for over-the-air (OTA) firmware update includes an industrial device with firmware, a central server with an interface configured to collect and process data from a data source, a wireless network, wherein the at least one industrial device and the central server are configured to communicate via the wireless network, and an OTA prediction module, the OTA...