ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,969, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System method for fractional secure boot by validating secure enclave using instructions of pre-drivers stored in memory by manufacturer" was invented by Chirag K Shroff (Cary, N.C.), William F. Sulzen (Apex, N.C.), Ofer Licht (Scotts Valley, Calif.) and Chandan Singh (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for configuring network groups without software-based processing and management. A method includes: validating veracity of a secure enclave based on a secure identify ...