US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 21 for "Storage controller and method of providing firmware image" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,141, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage controller and method of providing firmware image" was invented by Yongjae Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dongbin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Wonje Heo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage controller configured to control a nonvolatile memory includes a one-time programmable (OTP) memory configured to store a first public key, and a processor configured to, based on a first signature added to a firmware image including a host authentication public key being verified using the first public key, receive...