US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for detecting hardware tampering using airflow sensors" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,613, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for detecting hardware tampering using airflow sensors" was invented by Harikrishnan Pillai (San Jose, Calif.), Niels-Peder Mosegard Jensen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jeffrey C. Loo (San Jose, Calif.) and Phong Hoang Ho (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving airflow data from an airflow sensor installed inside of a hardware device and determining an airflow value from the airflow data. The method also includes determining that the airflow value exceeds a predetermined threshold. The metho...