US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Aug. 25 for "Process and circuit for verifying the integrity of a software application" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,970, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Process and circuit for verifying the integrity of a software application" was invented by Pierre-Henri Thevenon (Grenoble, France) and David Hely (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a process for verifying the integrity of software by a verification circuit, the process comprising: loading (401) the software into a first volatile memory; computing (402) a first verification value by the verification circuit; computing (403) a second verification value by applying a physically...