US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 4 for "Firmware verification system and firmware verification method" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,762, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Firmware verification system and firmware verification method" was invented by Min-Nan Cheng (Jhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A firmware verification system is suitable for a secure boot stage. The firmware verification system comprises a non-volatile firmware list storage device. The non-volatile firmware list storage device is configured to store a firmware list; wherein each entry corresponds to a firmware stored in a flash memory in a microcontroller, and each entry includes a plurality of fields. The bootloader reads the entries. Acc...