US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on June 23 for "Pinning device identifiers to cryptographic key pairs" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,902, issued on June 23, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Pinning device identifiers to cryptographic key pairs" was invented by Jennifer Bammel (Dexter, Mich.), David William Matteson (Dexter, Mich.), Kevin Johnson (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Harold Todd Chapman (Howell, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method for authenticating a computer system is provided. The method includes: receiving, by a processor, device identifier information associated with the computer system; generating, by the processor, a device identifier and an enrollment token based on the device identifier information; ...