ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,781, issued on March 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Secure boot method and apparatus" was invented by Haiwu Chen (Beijing), Honghong Dong (Beijing) and Bin Cao (Bangkok).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure boot method. The method may be performed by a communication device. According to the method, the communication device can flexibly perform secure boot by using different cryptographic algorithms based on different security requirements, to ensure security of the communication device. The communication device may obtain external secure boot code (ESBC). The ESBC includes a code segment of a...