ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,213, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Detecting alteration of boot code" was invented by Takami Eguchi (Tokyo), Nobuhiro Tagashira (Chiba, Japan), Ayuta Kawazu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Minetomo (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a first storage medium configured to store a first boot code, a boot code signature value for the entire first boot code, and a specific area signature value for a specific area in the first storage medium, and an alteration detection unit configured to perform detection of an alteration of the first boot code by using the boot c...