US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 23 for "Methods for trusted platform module based secure device enrollment in cloud services for managed devices" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,590, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods for trusted platform module based secure device enrollment in cloud services for managed devices" was invented by Bhoomika Nathani (Ajmer, India), Tarak Ranjan Mukherjee (Banaglore, India), Arindam Gupta (Bangalore, India) and Shiladitya Dey (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for secure enrollment of a device in a cloud service includes establishing trust between a trusted platform module (TPM) of a device and a cloud service by bypassing a plain text exposure of an endorsement key (EK) of the TPM. The method also includes ...