US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 21 for "Secure initial program load (IPL) code loading attributes facility" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,479, issued on April 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Secure initial program load (IPL) code loading attributes facility" was invented by Louis P. Gomes (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Peter Oberparleiter (Dettenhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product are provided for preventing malicious code injection during Initial Program Load (IPL). A secure code loading attributes block (SCLAB) is appended to a variable sized signed binary code component to generate a combined component. The variable sized signed binary code component is Operating System (...