ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,397, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Secure firmware upload" was invented by Antonino Mondello (Messina, Italy), Michele Alessandro Carrano (Catania, Italy) and Riccardo Condorelli (Catania, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method including executing, by an electronic device, a first firmware module stored in a volatile memory of the electronic device, the execution of the first firmware module causing an updated firmware key to be stored in a non-volatile memory of the electronic device, and uploading a second firmware module to the electr...