US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 27 for "Advertisement of confidential computing environments" (American, French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,698, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Advertisement of confidential computing environments" was invented by Eric Voit (Bethesda, Md.), Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France) and Frank Brockners (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques performed by offload computing devices that establish and advertise confidential computing environments for use by other computing devices. The offload computing devices may each be executing an attestable bootloader that creates the confidential computing environments, advertises the available resources to the other computing devices,...