ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,536, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Secure modification of controlled devices" was invented by Eric J. Campbell (Rochester, Minn.), Christopher Steffen (Rochester, Minn.), Chad Albertson (Rochester, Minn.) and Nicholas Ollerich (Rochester, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of securely controlling a device from another device. The user of the device attempts to modify the device in some way. In response to the attempted modification a request is generated and sent to a controlling device. The request includes information related to the desired modificati...