ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,598, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Storage device and method of providing firmware image" was invented by Yongjae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyungwoo Noh (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes: a non-volatile memory for storing a firmware set including a firmware image encrypted using a symmetric key and an encrypted symmetric key generated by encrypting the symmetric key using a public key; and a storage controller for controlling the non-volatile memory, wherein the storage controller includes: a physically unclonable function...