US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on March 3 for "Methods and systems to identify a compromised device through active testing" (Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,093, issued on March 3, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Methods and systems to identify a compromised device through active testing" was invented by Chang Fung Yang (Mississauga, Canada), Robert Joseph Lombardi (Kitchener, Canada), Chi Hing Ng (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Johnathan George White (St. Albans, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for determining whether a mobile device has been compromised. File tree structure information for the mobile device is obtained that details at least a portion of a tree-based structure of folders and files in a portion of memory. The file tree st...