ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,145, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ModeOne Technologies Inc. (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Secure forensic data collection on mobile devices" was invented by Matthew Rasmussen (Tustin, Calif.), Jason Purviance (Overland Park, Kan.), Ryan Frye (Olathe, Kan.) and William Baldisser (Maldonado, Uruguay).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the inventive subject matter are directed to systems and methods designed to facilitate data collection from a target device. By installing software on a target device and then granting that application system-level access to the target device, embodiments of the inventive subject matter can saf...