US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Mobile device privacy protection in public spaces" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,940, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Mobile device privacy protection in public spaces" was invented by Hamid Majdabadi (Ottawa), Su Liu (Austin, Texas), Neil Delima (Scarborough, Canada) and Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling user device privacy protection in a public space. In response to receiving an attempt to log-on to a user device in a location, the method accesses a surveillance camera mapping for the location. The method further detects one or more surveillance cameras within a proximity of the user device and noti...