US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 16 for "Industrial device MAC authentication bypass bootstrapping" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,537, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Industrial device MAC authentication bypass bootstrapping" was invented by Swapna Anandan (Fremont, Calif.), Flemming Stig Andreasen (Marlboro, N.J.) and Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an illustrative method herein may comprise: detecting, by a device, a new asset in a network with a media access control address; monitoring, by the device, the new asset to learn one or more contextual attributes of the new asset in the network; generating, by the device, a profile of the new asset based on the med...