ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,004, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Privileged firmware mode protection" was invented by Baibhav Singh (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Stephen Elliot McLaughlin (San Jose, Calif.) and Hayawardh Vijayakumar (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a request from a lower privileged process executing on a computing device to access a privileged firmware mode of the computing device and accessing a set of access policies for detecting whether the request is an unauthorized access to the privileged firmware mode. The method further inclu...