ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,319, issued on March 11, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"ASIC identity auto-provisioning" was invented by Chirag K. Shroff (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method to authenticate a hardware component, by a system, includes performing a verification process to determine whether the hardware component is authorized to run on the system. The hardware component comprises an electronic fuse storing a hash of a data package and a memory storing the data package, wherein the electronic fuse is configured to provide the hash to the memory. The verification process comprises transmitt...