US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Oct. 27 for "Information processing device and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,918, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device and information processing method" was invented by Taichi Ejiri (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan) and Kentaro Umesawa (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing device includes a first determination unit that determines whether instruction information for issuing an instruction to switch from a first verification method of verifying validity of firmware by using a digital signature generated based on public key encryption to a second verification method of verifying the validity of the firmware by using a mess...