US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 24 for "Virtualizing secure vault of data processing unit for secure hardware security module for hosts" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,452, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Virtualizing secure vault of data processing unit for secure hardware security module for hosts" was invented by Chakradhar Kar (San Jose, Calif.) and Sri Goli (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of securing and virtualizing firmware trusted platform modules (TPMs) for virtualizing a hardware security module (HSM) for a host within a network fabric is provided. The system and method include operably coupling a set of components associated with a host comprising a data processing unit (DPU) secure vault and a firmware trus...