US Patent Issued to Google on June 30 for "Rollback resistant security" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,260, issued on June 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Rollback resistant security" was invented by Paul Dermot Crowley (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for rollback resistant security are disclosed. In one aspect, a method, during a boot process of a computing device, includes the actions of obtaining a secret key derived from device-specific information for the computing device. The method further includes verifying that a signature for a software module is valid. The method further includes obta...