MUMBAI, India, Nov. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617092439 A) filed by International Business Machines Corporation on July 30, 2026, for Universal Serial Bus Device With Security Check.

Inventors include Gajra, Dimple; Suto, Tiberiu; Howe, Richard; Robinson, Nikki, Elyse; and Kumhyr, David.

The application for the patent was published on October 30, 2026, under issue no. 44/2026.

Abstract: Described are techniques for Universal Serial Bus (USB) security. The techniques include intercepting, by a Universal Serial Bus (USB) firewall of a USB device connected to a host, a file access request for a file. The techniques further include transmitting the file access request for the file to an authoriza...