US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 1 for "Chipset level intrusion detection" (American, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,290, issued on July 1, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Chipset level intrusion detection" was invented by Tan Peng (Saratoga, Calif.), Ali Rahbar (Bellevue, Wash.), Donghyun Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Eric Dalci (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a general purpose input/output (GPIO) pin and a chipset that has a bootloader component, a secure driver component, and a countermeasure handler component. The bootloader component loads an intrusion detection (ID) configuration for detecting intrusion events at the device, authenticates the ID configuration, and initializes the counter...