US Patent Issued to Bank of America on April 7 for "System and method to detect boot kit attacks" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,808, issued on April 7, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method to detect boot kit attacks" was invented by Nagasubramanya Lakshminarayana (Concord, N.C.) and Vijay Yarabolu (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting boot kit attacks that includes a memory configured to store previous hash values associated with a good boot sequence and a processor operably coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to receive from an external device current boot data associated with a current boot procedure of the external device. The current boot data includes at le...