ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,900, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Signal fingerprint" was invented by Alex Levin (San Jose, Calif.) and Eric Joseph Herrmann (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement a signal fingerprint. In an example aspect, a fingerprint module can monitor signals distributed between a host board and peripherals during an operation performed by the host board. The fingerprint module can generate a signal fingerprint that represents characteristics of the signals that correspond to the operation. With the signal fingerprint, the fingerprint module ...