ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,076, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SDG Logic Inc. (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Security hardened processing device" was invented by Sergiu Ghetie (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for security hardened processing devices. For example, a method can include performing a secure boot of a processing device of a computer system. The processing device is configured as a root of trust for a secure boot process. The computer system can include the processing device and a non-volatile memory storing a basic input/output system (BIOS) for the secure boot process. The method can include identifying a set ...