US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 28 for "Validating read-only portions of firmware or a downloaded image thereof by boot firmware validated by secure flash memory" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,969, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Validating read-only portions of firmware or a downloaded image thereof by boot firmware validated by secure flash memory" was invented by Cheng-Yi Hung (Valencia, Pa.), Vimalraj Vasudevan Thekkoot (San Jose, Calif.), Rochak Chadha (Pittsburgh) and Gregory J. Zavertnik (Mountain House, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein in which boot firmware validated by secure flash memory validates read-only portions of firmware stored by the firmware or a downloaded image of the read-only portions. The secure flash memo...