US Patent Issued to Fortinet on July 29 for "Dynamic ENV setting signature by two-dimensional random key" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,565, issued on July 29, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Dynamic ENV setting signature by two-dimensional random key" was invented by Dengxue Yan (San Jose, Calif.) and Jun Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During an initial bootup in a bootloader of an SOC, a random number that is unique to the device is stored in secured storage. During a first bootup, a two-dimensional random key is stored in secure storage for encoding the ENV parameters. During a second (subsequent) bootup, the ENV parameters that are current in unsecured storage are compared against the ENV parameters that previously existed...