US Patent Issued to British Telecommunications on Oct. 7 for "Data interception protection" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,123, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to British Telecommunications PLC (London).

"Data interception protection" was invented by Jonathan Roscoe (London) and Max Smith-Creasey (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method to protect data input to a user input device from detection, the device including an artificial haptic feedback mechanism arranged to generate an occurrence of haptic feedback for sensing by a user of the device in response to each input gesture on the device by the user, wherein at least a subset of each occurrence of haptic feedback is adjusted with respect to a previous occurrence of haptic fe...