ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,012, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Hardware-assisted client authentication for security enhancement of virtual device" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Hsiao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Pei-Lun Suei (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yingshiuan Pan (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yuchi Chu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device can include a remote protocol communication (RPC) slot configured to receive a message package generated from an entity during an RPC process, a processing unit configured to process the message package and return a result via the RPC slot to the entity, a blocker configured to be enabled to blo...