US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 14 for "Detection of unauthorized cryptomining" (Georgia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,799, issued on July 14, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Detection of unauthorized cryptomining" was invented by Dylan Reid (Atlanta) and Joseph Soryal (Ridgewood, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system of a device having at least one processor may determine that a temperature of the device exceeds a threshold temperature and obtain, in response to the determining, utilization information of the device comprising: processor utilization information, memory utilization information, and network utilization information. The processing system may then detect, from the utilization information of ...