US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 23 for "Deriving identity and root keys for embedded systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,205, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Deriving identity and root keys for embedded systems" was invented by Miguel Angel Osorio Lozano (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Timothy Jay Chen (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes systems and techniques for deriving identity and root keys for embedded systems. In aspects, a boot process and key manager of an embedded system may implement a secure or trusted boot process for embedded systems in which code of next-level boot loader or software image is verified using root keys or other protected information before execu...