US Patent Issued to HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES on Sept. 2 for "System method for vehicle bootloader image authentication using random number generator with cryptographic hash values" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,522, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"System method for vehicle bootloader image authentication using random number generator with cryptographic hash values" was invented by Asadullah Ansari (Bangalore, India), Vivek Agrawal (Bangalore, India) and Naveen Thenkani (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bootloader authentication system with a multimedia device to mount within a vehicle, a memory device, and a processor. The memory device stores data indicative of a public key associated with the vehicle and a signed hash bootloader image indicative of a signature of...