ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,471, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Mutable code efficiencies in measured secure boot for hardware root of trust" was invented by Seyed Ehsan Koohestani (Woodbridge, Canada), Fabrizio Damato (Folsom, Calif.), John Paul Traver (Fillmore, Calif.), Louis Albert Ferraro (Forest Lake, Minn.), Jonathan Luke Mahowald (Folsom, Calif.) and Piotr Michal Kwidzinski (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mutable firmware commonality for hardware root of trust is described. In at least one aspect, a system includes a volatile memory circuit...