US Patent Issued to Intel on June 30 for "Firmware verification mechanism" (American, Chinese, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,258, issued on June 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Firmware verification mechanism" was invented by Prashant Dewan (Portland, Ore.), Chao Zhang (Shanghai), Nivedita Aggarwal (Portland, Ore.), Aditya Katragada (Austin, Texas), Mohamed Haniffa (Tamilnadu, India) and Kenji Chen (Taiwan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to verify firmware in a computing system, comprising a non-volatile memory, including firmware memory to store agent firmware associated with each of a plurality of interconnect protocol (IP) agents and version memory to store security version numbers (SVNs) included in the agent ...