ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,917, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Hardware security module firmware update" was invented by Peter Chung (Frisco, Texas) and Bhargavi Nisarga (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory machine-readable medium having machine-readable instructions including a firmware generator, the machine-readable instructions for the firmware generator being executable by a processor core to perform operations including signing a firmware image for a hardware security module (HSM) with a private key of a public private key pair to provide a first signature and augmenting the firmware image with a h...