ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,092, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using root-of-trust (ROT) to continuously monitor device operation for impairment" was invented by Samir Valjibhai Rajgor (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sachin Agarwal (Fremont, Calif.), Srinivas Vundru (Cary, N.C.), Tatiana Serguei Dorofeeva (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chirag Shroff (Cary, N.C.) and Srirajkumar Sundararaman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring an Integrated Circuit (IC). The method includes a Root-Of-Trust (ROT) module to actuate a monitoring process to monitor at least one feature being performed in ongoing operati...