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Chirag Shroff — 23 Patents

Cisco: 23 patents #496 of 13,007Top 4%
Cary, NC: #256 of 3,681 inventorsTop 7%
North Carolina: #1,915 of 45,564 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Chirag Shroff has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in December 2025. Chirag Shroff ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Chirag Shroff in Cary, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2025.peak 52005: 2 patents20052014: 1 patents2015: 2 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 2 patents20172018: 2 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 3 patents2024: 1 patents20242025: 5 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12488092 Using root-of-trust (ROT) to continuously monitor device operation for impairment Samir Valjibhai Rajgor, Sanjay Agarwal, Srinivas Vundru, Tatiana Serguei Dorofeeva, Srirajkumar Sundararaman 2025-12-02
12423434 On-demand and secure hardware license-based SKU creation for ASICs Sachin Agarwal, Srirajkumar Sundararaman, Aviran Kadosh, Samir Valjibhai Rajgor, Kevin Shyh-Kang Chang +1 more 2025-09-23
12339969 System method for fractional secure boot by validating secure enclave using instructions of pre-drivers stored in memory by manufacturer William F. Sulzen, Ofer Licht, Chandan Singh 2025-06-24
12254123 Using a trust anchor to verify an identity of an ASIC David McGrew 2025-03-18
12250319 ASIC identity auto-provisioning 2025-03-11
12072981 Using a trust anchor to control functionality of an ASIC David McGrew 2024-08-27 $90,111,000
11816219 Binding a trust anchor and an ASIC David McGrew 2023-11-14 $28,717,000
11784807 Binding an ASIC to a trust anchor David McGrew 2023-10-10 $34,136,000
11580226 Hybrid firmware code protection Dylan T. Walker, Gregory Michael Schnorr, Gregory James Waldschmidt 2023-02-14 $58,766,000
11436333 Bios/bootloader protection Chandan Singh, Chandrashekar Sodankoor, Gregory James Waldschmidt 2022-09-06 $48,036,000
10929807 Supply chain life cycle validation Anthony H. Grieco 2021-02-23 $41,966,000
10761955 Rogue hardware detection through power monitoring Anthony H. Grieco 2020-09-01 $44,977,000
10659234 Dual-signed executable images for customer-provided integrity Kannan Varadhan, Rakesh Chopra 2020-05-19 $51,516,000
9940486 Detection of hardware tampering Anthony H. Grieco 2018-04-10 $38,084,000
9934119 Rogue hardware detection through power monitoring Anthony H. Grieco 2018-04-03 $31,905,000
9830456 Trust transference from a trusted processor to an untrusted processor Anthony H. Grieco 2017-11-28 $26,288,000
9727722 Non-intrusive monitoring Anthony H. Grieco 2017-08-08 $25,453,000
9330255 Method and system for monitoring a computer system Larus Maxwell, Anthony H. Grieco 2016-05-03 $24,448,000
9147074 Method and apparatus for securing CPUS booted using attached flash memory devices Anthony H. Grieco, Robert T. Bell 2015-09-29 $30,348,000
8949586 System and method for authenticating computer system boot instructions during booting by using a public key associated with a processor and a monitoring device Anthony H. Grieco 2015-02-03 $17,448,000
8693470 Distributed routing with centralized quality of service Larus Maxwell 2014-04-08 $43,064,000
6973093 Switching fabric for interfacing a host processor and a plurality of network modules Dennis Briddell 2005-12-06 $21,865,000
6963569 Device for interworking asynchronous transfer mode cells Dennis Briddell, Harshad Nakil 2005-11-08 $63,179,000