ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,997, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Authentication of hardware component firmware" was invented by Christopher H Stewart (Spring, Texas) and Baraneedharan Anbazhagan (Spring, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus may include a hardware component, a memory, and a processor. The processor may retrieve a firmware for the hardware component subsequent to the firmware being loaded on the hardware component. The processor may determine that a firmware signature associated with the firmware is stored in the memory. In some examples, in response to a determination t...