US Patent Issued to Gatekeeper on Dec. 16 for "System and method for securely connecting to a peripheral device" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,063, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Gatekeeper Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"System and method for securely connecting to a peripheral device" was invented by Gil Litichever (Modiin, Israel), Oded Gutentag (Ramat Yishay, Israel), Eyal Zvuluny (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ariel Hershler (Efrat, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device connectable between a host computer and a computer peripheral over a standard bus interface is disclosed, used to improve security, and to detect and prevent malware operation. Messages passing between the host computer and the computer peripherals are intercepted and analyzed based on pre-configured crit...