ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,186, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Tamper detection systems for electronic devices" was invented by Sajin George (Newton, Mass.), Vivek Anand (Chelmsford, Mass.), Krutarth Mukesh Gathani (Redmond, Wash.) and Hector Jonathan Espinoza (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for tamper detection of electronic devices are described. The tamper detection is performed using a tamper circuit that includes an authenticator connected to an auxiliary power source of the electronic device via a switch. The switch is configured to open and break the connection between the au...