US Patent Issued to Fortinet on May 27 for "Virtual one-time programming (OTP) to avoid dead chip during OTP device programming" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,455, issued on May 27, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Virtual one-time programming (OTP) to avoid dead chip during OTP device programming" was invented by Dengxue Yan (San Jose, Calif.) and Zengli Duan (Monte Sereno, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Responsive to OTP device not being enabled for an SoC, the RAMBOOT bootup authenticated by the key or key hash of an OTP is precluded and a determination is made whether the RAMBOOT bootup has been authenticated by the key or key hash on the virtual OTP. Responsive to not being authenticated, authentication of the RAMBOOT bootup is initiated. Responsive to being ...