ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,521, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Devices for verifying the integrity of software" was invented by David Julien Plaquin (Bristol, Great Britain), Christopher Ian Dalton (Bristol, Great Britain) and Pierre Louis Robert Belgarric (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring device for verifying the integrity of a software of a memory device is disclosed. The monitoring device comprises a processor and a memory, the memory containing instructions executable by the processor, such that the processor is to; receive first information on at least one physical ...