ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,052, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Reno, Nev.).
"Combination boot for an integrated circuit" was invented by Barak Wasserstrom (Mizpe Aviv, Israel), Ori Cohen (Atlit, Israel) and Andrew Robert Sinton (Jerusalem).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A boot process for a computing device, such as integrated circuit, includes security features that are inaccessible during certain operation modes. An image including permission to access those security features is received during the boot process and may be verified using one or more keys. In operation, access to the security features is permitted during the operat...