ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,924, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for protecting data" was invented by Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.) and Curtis Light (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for protecting data. A device requesting access to the data is required to correctly respond to a challenge embedded in the data provided responsive to a request for the data. If the device that receives the data is able to generate the correct response to the challenge, the device can be validated as the device that was intended to receive the data. When the device is abl...