ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,041, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Speculative activation for secure element usage" was invented by Olivier Jean Benoit (San Diego), Prasad Modali (Fremont, Calif.), Vinoth Kumar Deivasigamani (San Diego) and Benjamin K. Dodge (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "If a secure element accesses a resource that is separate from the secure element, conducting a secure transaction can be inefficient in terms of power or time. Power usage is inefficient if the resource is never permitted to sleep, and transaction time is inefficient if the resource is permitted to sleep, and the user exp...