US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 12 for "Multistage device boot with independent stage keys where first authentication tag is generated during previous boot operation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,967, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multistage device boot with independent stage keys where first authentication tag is generated during previous boot operation" was invented by Samar Asbe (San Diego), Aseem Brahma (San Diego) and Shivaprasad Hongal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for booting a device with independent stage keys. In one illustrative example, a computing device can generate a first stage key for a first stage of a current boot operation of the device based on a private key associated with the device. The c...