MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641051563 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on April 22, for 'a system and method for secure control of firmware access in an embedded electronic device.'
Inventor(s) include Vedansh Gupta; Rounak Agarwal; Raj Kokate; and Dr. Pounambal M.
The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a system and method for secure control of firmware access in an embedded electronic device. The system comprises a behavioral monitoring module (103) configured to monitor operational parameters including debug interface activity (104), voltage variations (107), authentication attempts (105), power cycle patterns (106), and execution timing (117). An anomaly detection module (108, 302) generates anomaly indicators, and a threat evaluation engine (202) assigns weights and accumulates them (109, 118) to compute a threat confidence score. A hardware protection module (203, 304) restricts access to firmware when the threshold (110) is exceeded. The restriction is implemented through irreversible hardware actions including memory bus disconnection (113), flash access disablement (305), or memory degradation (120). The invention provides enhanced protection against unauthorized access and reverse engineering (116, 307) of firmware."
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