US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 29 for "Key rotation for device application authentication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,272, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Key rotation for device application authentication" was invented by Ruben Erick Escolero (San Francisco), Michael Freed (Pleasanton, Calif.), Fiona Hall-Zazueta (San Jose, Calif.) and Jason Trung Hoa Tang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a server stores a set of cryptographic keys associated with a client that includes a server-stored bootstrap key, a server-stored authentication key, and a server-stored proposed key. The server receives an authentication request from the client that includes a client-indicated b...