ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,236, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Firmware verification using parity information" was invented by Flavio Pace (Filiano, Italy), Antonino Pollio (Vico Equense, Italy) and Laura Ferrante (San Giorgio a Cremano, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses include reading a firmware image from a memory device. Parity data for the firmware image is computed. A first authentication code associated with the firmware image is received. A second authentication code is computed by performing a cryptographic operation on the parity data. It is determined that the first aut...