US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 4 for "Continuous impairment of a chip upon detecting a damaged package" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,812, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Continuous impairment of a chip upon detecting a damaged package" was invented by Samir Valjibhai Rajgor (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sachin Agarwal (Fremont, Calif.), Srirajkumar Sundararaman (San Jose, Calif.) and Chirag Shroff (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring an Integrated Circuit (IC). The method includes decrypting, by the Root-Of-Trust (ROT) module, an identity package that resides in a non-volatile memory of the IC using a secret accessible by the ROT module. The identity package is configured in a decrypted state at th...