US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 27 for "Secure association sharing in multi-source and multi-destination environments" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,021, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Secure association sharing in multi-source and multi-destination environments" was invented by Wanli Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Scott Roy Fluhrer (North Attleboro, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for providing initialization vector (IV) uniqueness and extending rekeying windows for network devices that perform secure association sharing in multi-source and multi-destination environments. The techniques may apply to existing hardware of the network devices. The techniques may enable the network de...