ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,002, issued on June 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Secure operating system update" was invented by Zhan Liu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for secure operating system update are described. A first message including a first value and a request associated with an operating system that is stored in a write-protected area of memory may be transmitted to a server. In response to the first message, a second message including data associated with the operating system, a second value corresponding to the first value, and a signature of the server may be received. Th...