ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,912, issued on April 15, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Facilitating authentication of routing modules associated with one or more network devices to allow zero touch provisioning" was invented by Guy Fedorkow (Cambridge, Mass.) and Sambasiva Rao Katta (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive a redundant identifier certificate associated with a redundant routing module, and may provide, to a bootstrap device, a primary identifier certificate associated with a primary routing module associated with the network device. The network device may establish a secure connection ...