US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on April 1 for "Establishing trust between supervisors in a network device" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,442, issued on April 1, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Establishing trust between supervisors in a network device" was invented by Julien Andre Alexis Gomes (Vancouver, Canada) and Baptiste Elie Franck Covolato (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, embodiments relate to a method for establishing trust between supervisors in a network device, the method including obtaining, by a first supervisor, signed platform configuration register (PCR) values from a second supervisor, wherein the first supervisor and the second supervisor are located in the network device, comparing the signed...