ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,400, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Embedded electronic device and boot method thereof" was invented by Tian-Yuan Zhang (Suzhou, China), Yang Lu (Suzhou, China), Gang Shen (Suzhou, China) and Dong-Yu He (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embedded electronic device and a boot method are provided. A processor of the embedded electronic device is configured to execute following steps based on a first boot procedure: verifying whether a second memory device safely corresponds to a first memory controller; in response to that the second memory device safely corresponds to t...