US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 11 for "Read-only memory (ROM) security" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,405, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Read-only memory (ROM) security" was invented by Michael Stefano Fritz Schaffner (Campbell, Calif.), Rupert James Swarbrick (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Timothy Jay Chen (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus with an integrated circuit (IC) chip can provide protection against attacks on a read-only memory (ROM), such as a boot ROM for security circuitry. An attacker can gain control of an IC by modifying ROM contents and/or redirecting ROM reads. To combat these attacks, example implementations store encrypted ROM data in the ROM a...