US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 23 for "On-demand secure hardware license-based SKU creation for ASICs" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,434, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"On-demand secure hardware license-based SKU creation for ASICs" was invented by Sachin Agarwal (Fremont, Calif.), Srirajkumar Sundararaman (San Jose, Calif.), Aviran Kadosh (Moreshet, Israel), Samir Valjibhai Rajgor (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chirag Shroff (Cary, N.C.), Kevin Shyh-Kang Chang (Saratoga, Calif.) and Dylan Walker (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a system-on-chip (SOC) including decrypting, by isolated Root of Trust (RoT) code, a Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) license code from a host during bootup of a device. T...