ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,127, issued on May 19, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Information processing device and key management device" was invented by Nobuyoshi Morita (Tokyo), Mikio Kataoka (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Fujii (Tokyo) and Masashi Yano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an information processing apparatus that enables updating of a key for program verification without invalidating a program verification function. An information processing apparatus 1 that calculates a verification value using a key for program verification and that verifies whether the verification value matches a verificatio...