US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Nov. 25 for "Firmware component identification and vulnerability assessment" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,764, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Firmware component identification and vulnerability assessment" was invented by Gil Regev (Ramat-Gan, Israel), Ori Perez (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tamir Ariel (Tel Aviv, Israel), Alon Yaakov Braverman (Tel Aviv, Israel), Maayan Shaul (Herzliya, Israel), Yogev Shitrit (Rishon Lezion, Israel) and Noa Frumovich (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums are described for identifying an origin of a device firmware component. A firmware disassembler is configured to disassemble ...