US Patent Issued to Sophos on April 7 for "Network access using hardware-based security" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,078, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Network access using hardware-based security" was invented by Dipak Kr. Das (Bangalore, India), Avni Bhupendrakumar Wala (Bangalore, India), John Frederick Dawson (Pittsburgh), Hariprasad Nekkare Gururaj (Bangalore, India) and Anirban Debnath (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endpoint device uses hardware-based security to authenticate to an enterprise network. For example, an endpoint device such as network hardware or an end user device can request authentication in order to join an enterprise network that is managed by a computing pla...