US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 23 for "Distributed hierarchical authentication of system component identities" (California, North Carolina, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,399, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed hierarchical authentication of system component identities" was invented by Archana Nagaraj (San Ramon, Calif.), Chandana Prakash (Dublin, Calif.), Michael Gary Curcio (Apex, N.C.) and Rachel Weeks (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example method, a presence of a component with a cryptographic identity is detected. The component is detected by an authenticator component capable of authenticating a component. The example method further includes determining an authentication status of the detected component. The authent...