US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 24 for "Cryptographically generated device identifiers" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,900, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cryptographically generated device identifiers" was invented by Srinath Gundavelli (San Jose, Calif.) and Mark Grayson (Maidenhead, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for network communications are disclosed. These techniques include receiving a cryptographically generated device identifier (CGDI) and a public key relating to a wireless station (STA). The techniques further include determining a first hash based on decrypting the CGDI using the public key, and validating the first hash for an access network. The techniques further ...