US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 9 for "Verifying secure software images using digital certificates" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,177, issued on June 9, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Verifying secure software images using digital certificates" was invented by Zhan Liu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments relate to improved security in computing devices. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a device including: a secure storage area, the secure storage area including a first public key written during manufacturing of the device; a controller configured to: receive data, the data including a payload, digital certificate, and digital signature, validate the digital certificate using the fir...