US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Jan. 20 for "Certifying authenticity of stored code and code updates" (Italian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,734, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Certifying authenticity of stored code and code updates" was invented by Salvatore Fava (Francofonte, Italy), Antonino Mondello (Messina, Italy) and Alberto Troia (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The authenticity and/or integrity of data is determined based on cryptographic measurements. In some cases, the data is executable code of a computer program stored in system memory. In other cases, the data is firmware stored in a storage device or a boot device. In yet other cases, the data is executable code that is part of an update being received by an...