US Patent Issued to RED BALLOON SECURITY on Oct. 21 for "Method and apparatus for securing embedded device firmware" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,359, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to RED BALLOON SECURITY INC. (New York).

"Method and apparatus for securing embedded device firmware" was invented by Ang Cui (New York) and Salvatore J. Stolfo (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for securing embedded devices via both online and offline defensive strategies. One or more security software components may be injected into firmware binary to create a modified firmware binary, which is functionally- and size-equivalent to the original firmware binary. The security software components may retrieve live forensic information related to embedded devices for use in...