US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 16 for "Preventing data and hardware loss in pre-provisioned devices" (North Carolina, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,524, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Preventing data and hardware loss in pre-provisioned devices" was invented by William Sterling Alexander (Durham, N.C.) and Wayne Elmer Moorefield Jr. (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises: at a control entity configured to communicate with a network: linking a user identifier of a user having an account for call-related information to a hardware identifier of a device to be sent to the user, to produce linked identifiers; loading on the device a limited use token associated with the user that enables only basic call func...