ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,050, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus for analyzing non-informative firmware and method using the same" was invented by Dae-Won Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Sang-Su Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Yong-Je Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Byeong-Cheol Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong-Wook Kang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yang-Seo Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an apparatus for analyzing non-informative firmware and a method using the apparatus. The method includes detecting a target instruction for firmware...