US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY on June 24 for "Secure boot device, method and electronic system using the same" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,970, issued on June 24, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Secure boot device, method and electronic system using the same" was invented by Wen-Hung Huang (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure boot device includes a counter, a storage device and a comparator. The counter receives a clock. When the processor performs a verification of a firmware for the first time, the counter counts a first verification time taken by the processor to perform the verification of the firmware for the first time based on the clock to generate a first-time verification count value. When the processor performs t...