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Yes. Using kexec.
Though this is irrelevant for majority of users: I've never seen it as the default.
That +
gives me the idea that its likely safer to just do a proper reboot, if your alternative is kernel patching or loading a completely different kernel.
Plus, its likely that not every single bit of firmware running on your devices support live patching. Thus you will be rebooting eventually, unless you are fine with avoiding the updates.