ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,464, issued on April 14, was assigned to DataLocker Inc. (Overland Park, Kan.).
"Peripheral device sandbox" was invented by Nicolas Picard (Gatineau, Canada) and Anders Kjellander (Hassleholm, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authorizing a peripheral device to be operably connected to a host device. The method includes receiving an indication that the peripheral device has been physically connected with the host device. An additional step includes generating a sandbox environment within the host device. An additional step includes obtaining enumeration data from the peripheral device and obtaining a device signatur...