US Patent Issued to FORTINET on Sept. 15 for "Out-of-band file integrity check" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,501, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to FORTINET INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Out-of-band file integrity check" was invented by Xu Zhou (Saratoga, Calif.), Jia Tong (San Jose, Calif.), Dengxue Yan (San Jose, Calif.) and Chien-An Chen (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches to validating files on a memory device are described. A startup sequence for a host system having at least a hardware processor coupled with a memory device is initiated. The startup sequence includes at least reserving a memory queue for validation. The hardware processor of the host system accesses the memory device using a peer-to-peer commun...