Patents by Inventor Julien Couvrand

Julien Couvrand has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220209947
    Abstract: The present description concerns an electronic system including one or a plurality of first microprocessors, a second microprocessor for securely managing first encryption keys of the first microprocessors, the second microprocessor being configured to communicate with each first microprocessor and including a first non-volatile memory having at least one second key stored therein, and for each first microprocessor, a second non-volatile memory external to the second microprocessor and containing the first keys of the first microprocessor encrypted with the second key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicants: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS, STMicroelectronics (Grand Ouest) SAS
    Inventors: Julien COUVRAND, William ORLANDO
  • Patent number: 11340798
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a first microprocessor, a request of modification of a content of a first memory of the first microprocessor, the first memory being accessible only by the first microprocessor. The method includes accessing, by the first microprocessor, first data associated with the request and a signature generated from the first data with an asymmetric cipher algorithm. The first data and the signature are available in a second memory of a second microprocessor, and the first data is representative of a modification to be applied to the content of the first memory. The modification is representative of a modification of a set of services exposed by the first microprocessor. The method includes verifying, by the first microprocessor, authenticity of the first data based on the signature; and modifying the content of the first memory according to the first data, the modifying being conditioned by the verifying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS (GRAND OUEST) SAS, STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS
    Inventors: William Orlando, Julien Couvrand, Pierre Guillemin
  • Publication number: 20200409572
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a first microprocessor, a request of modification of a content of a first memory of the first microprocessor, the first memory being accessible only by the first microprocessor. The method includes accessing, by the first microprocessor, first data associated with the request and a signature generated from the first data with an asymmetric cipher algorithm. The first data and the signature are available in a second memory of a second microprocessor, and the first data is representative of a modification to be applied to the content of the first memory. The modification is representative of a modification of a set of services exposed by the first microprocessor. The method includes verifying, by the first microprocessor, authenticity of the first data based on the signature; and modifying the content of the first memory according to the first data, the modifying being conditioned by the verifying.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: William Orlando, Julien Couvrand, Pierre Guillemin