ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,919, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"External memory data integrity validation" was invented by Barak Cherches (Ramat Ha'Kovesh, Israel) and Uri Weinrib (Mazkeret Batya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a method includes determining, during a boot sequence of a controller, a hash value for data of a block of a flash storage device, the block including executable code, determining a bit pattern based on a randomly generated number, extracting a subset of data bits of the hash value according to the bit pattern to obtain a snippet, and storing the snippet to a secure storage dev...