US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 4 for "Universal serial bus device with security check" (Texas, New York, Maryland, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,102, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Universal serial bus device with security check" was invented by Dimple Gajra (Austin, Texas), Tiberiu Suto (Franklin, N.Y.), Richard Howe (Mebane, N.C.), Nikki Elyse Robinson (Davidsonville, Md.) and David Kumhyr (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for Universal Serial Bus (USB) security. The techniques include intercepting, by a Universal Serial Bus (USB) firewall of a USB device connected to a host, a file access request for a file. The techniques further include transmitting the file access request for t...