US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 15 for "Attestation-based scheme for validating peering setups for critical infrastructure protocols" (American, Indian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,191, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Attestation-based scheme for validating peering setups for critical infrastructure protocols" was invented by Sujal Sheth (Gujarat, India), Shwetha Subray Bhandari (Bangalore, India), Eric Voit (Bethesda, Md.), William F. Sulzen (Apex, N.C.) and Frank Brockners (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A verifier peer system transmits a request to an application of another peer system to obtain integrity data of the application. In response to the request, the verifier peer system obtains a response that includes kernel secure boot metrics of th...