US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 29 for "Techniques for enforcing configuration requirements for application-specific integrated circuits (ASICS)" (California, Illinois, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,848, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for enforcing configuration requirements for application-specific integrated circuits (ASICS)" was invented by Sachin Agarwal (Fremont, Calif.), Aviran Kadosh (Moreshet, Ill.), Srirajkumar Sundararaman (San Jose, Calif.), Samir Valjibhai Rajgor (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Chirag Shroff (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for an isolated Root of Trust (RoT) component associated with a system-on-chip (SoC), such as a networking-related SoC, to enforce a persona on the SoC and/or control the operation...