ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,726, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Boot controller has tightly coupled smart memory (TCM) unit comprising boot code accessed by ROM memory unit for verifying integrity of boot code" was invented by Eunyoung Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a boot controller and a computing device including the boot controller. After receiving a power-on-reset signal from the computing device, the boot controller verifies the integrity of boot code stored in read only memory (ROM) of the computing device by reading the boot code from the ROM, and determi...