ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,463, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Beken Corp. (Shanghai).
"Method for patching secure boot in IoT" was invented by Zhifu Liu (Shanghai), Zhilei Wang (Shanghai) and Pujie Yang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of patching a secure boot of an internet of things (IoT) device is provided. The method may include: loading a patch on a flash memory of a system-on-chip (SoC); generating a patch key corresponding to the loaded patch using a cryptographic algorithm; reading a pre-determined authentication key from a one-time programmable (OTP) memory of the SoC; comparing the patch key with the authentication key. In resp...