ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,838, issued on July 15, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Tamper detection for intrinsically-safe or explosion-proof enclosures" was invented by Jonathan Quinn Brubacher (Waterloo, Canada), Mahendra Fuleshwar Prasad (Waterloo, Canada), Yu Gao (Waterloo, Canada), Scott Leonard Dill (Paris, Canada), Cortez Corley (Waterloo, Canada) and Ying Tong Man (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for detecting and reporting a battery tamper event with regard to an intrinsically-safe or explosion-proof device while the device is located in a hazardous environment. The device may include a location...