ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,266, issued on June 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Connected device region identification" was invented by Vesh Raj Sharma Banjade (Portland, Ore.), Satish Chandra Jha (Portland, Ore.), Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan (Portland, Ore.), Liuyang Lily Yang (Portland, Ore.), Ned M. Smith (Beaverton, Ore.), S M Iftekharul Alam (Hillsboro, Ore.), Arvind Merwaday (Beaverton, Ore.), Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Kshitij Arun Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.) and Kuilin Clark Chen (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of methods, systems, and use cases include region identification of a malicious dev...