ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,657, issued on May 6, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Software integrity protection method and apparatus, and software integrity verification method and apparatus" was invented by Bin Cao (Nanjing, China), Haiwu Chen (Beijing), Yan Chen (Nanjing, China) and Bo Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a software integrity protection method and apparatus. A first device obtains a first software package, where the first software package includes a first signature made by a first party for a second software package by using a first private key; and the first d...