ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,244, issued on June 30.
"Firewell system for human interface devices" was invented by Brian Keith Davidson (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing a human interface device firewall (HID-F) is disclosed, including a device detector to detect the presence of a human interface device and to turn on a human interface device firewall if a human interface device is detected. An interceptor intercepts one or more inputs and transmit the one or more inputs to a malicious input engine configured to analyze the one or more inputs for malicious input. If the input is deemed safe the one or more inputs are sent to a host ...