ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,809, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for verifying firmware" was invented by Sewon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyung-Woo Noh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yeongae Yu (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for verifying firmware includes verifying a firmware certificate of the firmware using a first public key, verifying validity of a second public key included in the firmware certificate in response to successful verification of the firmware certificate, verifying the firmware using the second public key in response to successful ...