ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,065, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Trusted access control for secure boot process for storage controllers or drivers" was invented by Yashavantha Rao (Hyderabad, India), Tanya Mahajan (Bangalore, India), Benish Babu (San Diego) and Prashanth Mayya (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described herein for image authentication for secure boot. For example, a process the image authentication can include: receiving, a request to load an image during a secure boot process; performing, at the secure entity, a secure boot configuration action set in response to receivin...