US Patent Issued to Fortinet on March 24 for "Authentication of device configurations for authenticated devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,786, issued on March 24, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Authentication of device configurations for authenticated devices" was invented by Li Hou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Validation of a firmware image on a client device is disclosed. Information corresponding to one or more addresses of an image stored on a client device is periodically requested via an application program interface (API) configured to provide access to the image on the client device. The requested information from the image on the client device is compared with the image stored on the server image with stored validation...