US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 17 for "Speech confidentiality monitoring and alerting" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,927, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Speech confidentiality monitoring and alerting" was invented by Derek William Engi (Pleasant Ridge, Mich.), Matthew David Barber (London), Thomas E. Fincher (London), Marianna Pittokopiti (London), Matthew Robert Engle (Plano, Texas) and Joseph Michael Clarke (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for performing automated eavesdropping detection and remediation. A distance between a first and second wireless client device is determined with reference to a wireless access point bas...