US Patent Issued to Intel on April 15 for "Computing devices with secure boot operations" (California, Oregon, Colorado, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,228, issued on April 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Computing devices with secure boot operations" was invented by Yeluri Raghuram (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Susanne M. Balle (Hudson, N.H.), Nigel Thomas Cook (Boulder, Colo.) and Kapil Sood (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments related to security in cloudlet environments. In some embodiments, for example, a computing device (e.g., a cloudlet) may include: a trusted execution environment; a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) to request a Key Encryption Key (KEK) from the trusted execution environment; and a Self-Encrypting Sto...