ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,967, issued on June 24, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Firmware authenticity check" was invented by Alessandro Orlando (Milan), Niccolo' Izzo (Vignate, Italy) and Danilo Caraccio (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and devices for authenticating a firmware object on a device and in some examples to safeguard the attestation process from the execution of malicious firmware. In some examples, a firmware update process may, in addition to updating the firmware on the device, write a hash of the authentic firmware code in a secure storage device (e.g., a register...