ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,039, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data integrity protection method and apparatus" was invented by Xuehong Zeng (Shenzhen, China), Yi Xia (Chengdu, China), Heng Cai (Shenzhen, China) and Yongjin Cai (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data integrity protection method is applied to an electronic device, and the electronic device stores vendor data and first verification information. The first verification information is stored in a first storage area of the electronic device and is used to perform integrity verification on the vendor data. The method includes: First d...