ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,158, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Memory system and method for signature verification of firmware" was invented by Hajime Matsui (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a controller includes a CPU and an accelerator which performs signature verification using a first signature of a first scheme. When updating first firmware to second firmware to which a second signature of a second scheme is assigned, the controller performs the signature verification of the second firmware based on the second signature assigned to the second firmware by the CPU, generates the...