US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 23 for "Real-time ownership status check for network devices in a network" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,390, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Real-time ownership status check for network devices in a network" was invented by Jabir Hamediya Mohammed (Karnataka, India), Bazil Mohammed Ali (Kerala, India), Reda Haddad (San Jose, Calif.), Chennakesava Reddy Gaddam (Karnataka, India) and Nishad C M (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and architecture are described for verifying real-time ownership of network devices, e.g., routers, switches, etc. The real-time ownership of network devices is verified using the ownership voucher/ownership certificate model, which is usefu...