ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,806, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"ROM/OTP patching using ECC/parity manipulation" was invented by Thomas David (Lakeway, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of performing updates to a software image that is disposed in a read only memory or a one time programmable memory device are disclosed. The method includes causing an ECC error at the beginning of a function that has been modified. This ECC error causes an exception. The exception handler determines the address where the ECC error was detected was located and searches a dictionary. This dictionary contains entries that eac...