US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "Portable media geofence and device pairing security" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,799, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Portable media geofence and device pairing security" was invented by Kelly Vaughn (Hillsborough, N.J.), Dane Warren (Highland, N.Y.) and Michael Kane (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and a computer program product for device pairing security. A computer scans a media device for a potential threat. In response to determining that the potential threat does not exist, a computer copies content of the media device to a secure media device. A computer configures a write protection mode on the sec...