US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 3 for "Mode switch for partial integrity security operations" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,372, issued on March 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Mode switch for partial integrity security operations" was invented by Richard Dominic Wietfeldt (San Diego), Philip Michael Hawkes (Valley Heights, Australia), William Whyte (Natick, Mass.) and Jonathan Petit (Wenham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing circuit is coupled to imaging devices through multiple data communication links. Each data communication link couples at least one imaging device with the processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to determine when a change is required in a first data protection configuration that protect...