ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,782, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Embedded device based digital fingerprint signing and public ledger based digital signal registering management" was invented by John Herman Hess III (Phoenix), Nikhil Sainath Kale (Santa Clara, Calif.), Foster Glenn Lipkey (New Market, Md.) and John Joseph Groetzinger (Baltimore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for embedded device based fingerprint signing and public ledger registering management. A digital fingerprint associated with media content can be identified. An embedded integrated circuit (IC) of the computing device can...