US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Sept. 23 for "Dynamic booting of operating system by designating first base boot partition as active boot partition responsive to detecting unauthorized attempt to access first encrypted file" (Irish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,435, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Dynamic booting of operating system by designating first base boot partition as active boot partition responsive to detecting unauthorized attempt to access first encrypted file" was invented by Leigh Griffin (Kilmacthomas, Ireland) and Pierre-Yves Chibon (Saint-Pol-de-Leon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include storing, in a first base boot partition, an image of a first base operating system; storing, in a first overlay boot partition, a first overlay file system comprising a first encrypted file; configuring the first overlay boot ...