ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,762, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QUANTA COMPUTER INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Systems and methods for using internal memory of a system on chip in a security boot" was invented by Jhao-Han Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yen-Ping Tung (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system is provided. The computing system includes a system on a chip. The system on a chip includes a processor and an internal memory. The computing system further includes a root of trust hardware connected to the internal memory and configured to intercept commands from the processor to the internal memory."

The patent was filed on Dec. 29, 2...