US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on May 26 for "Protection of computing device from potential optical network intrusion attack" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,093, issued on May 26, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Protection of computing device from potential optical network intrusion attack" was invented by Peter Seiler (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Nicolas James Jurich (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes an optical network transceiver and a basic input/output system (BIOS). The optical network transceiver is to connect to an optical network and to generate an event indicating that an optical signal strength has attenuated below a threshold. The BIOS is to determine generation of the event by the optical network t...