ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,767, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DigiCert Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Systems and methods for identifying peripheral devices and logging operations performed thereon" was invented by Naveen Gopalakrishna (Bangalore, India) and Avesta Hojjati (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods, implemented by a host machine, include, responsive to a peripheral device being coupled to the host machine and responsive to being granted access to data on the peripheral device, determining a presence of a change log on the peripheral device; responsive to a lack of the presence of the change log on the peripheral device, preven...