US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 19 for "Fast repowering using cryptographically protected identity" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,339, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fast repowering using cryptographically protected identity" was invented by Eric A. Voit (Bethesda, Md.), Yesu Lu (San Jose, Calif.), Eliot Lear (Wetzikon, Switzerland) and Ashok K. Moghe (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device connected to a power source via a combined power/data connection obtains an authentication request from the power source. The authentication request includes a freshness mechanism provided by the power source. The computing device signs an authentication response with a private key associated with a...