ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,634, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Lookout Inc. (Boston).
"Automatically detecting SIM-breach events" was invented by Brian James Buck (Livermore, Calif.), Christoph Hebeisen (Toronto), Eugene Kolodenker (Norwood, Mass.), Usman Khan (Toronto), Yannick Formaggio (Squamish, Canada) and Tyler Croak (Columbia, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for detecting and responding to potential SIM-security breach events are described herein. A security application executing on a device may determine if the device has the ability to place calls by querying a baseband processor of the device. When the device does not have ...