US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on July 8 for "Shared security states" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,534, issued on July 8, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Shared security states" was invented by Carlos Haas Costa (Palo Alto, Calif.), Diogo Strube de Lima (Palo Alto, Calif.), Walter Flores Pereira (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Andre Dafonte Lopes Da Silva (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device includes a connection engine to establish a secure connection with a second device. The device includes a security engine to determine a shared security state for the first device and the second device based on a security state of the first device and a security state of the second dev...