ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,308, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating verifiable power line sustainability data" was invented by Eric A Voit (Bethesda, Md.) and Gary Stuebing (North Myrtle Beach, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating verifiable power line sustainability data are disclosed herein. In many embodiments, a device includes a processor, a memory commutatively coupled to the processor, a communication port coupled with a second device, and a smart meter logic configured to execute within a trusted execution environment. Power source data may be received through the co...