ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,234, issued on April 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Staged measured boot sequence of a computer" was invented by Erez Tsidon (Moreshet, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a computer or other electronic device that uses a boot process, it is desirable to allow updating of boot images without impacting objects sealed using trusted keys. In one embodiment, multiple platform configuration registers (PCRs) within a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) are used in association with the booting process. A first PCR can be associated with a first boot image and a second PCR can be associated with a second boot image....