ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,505, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Systems and methods for chassis intrusion detection" was invented by Anand Avinash Kulkarni (Sammamish, Wash.), Priya Raghu (Renton, Wash.), Christopher Lawrence Weimer (Redmond, Wash.) and Christy Felix Pradeep Antony (Mississauga, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes an intrusion switch and a battery-backed volatile memory. The battery-backed volatile memory is configured to indicate a physical intrusion when the physical intrusion is detected by the intrusion switch. The triggering of the intrusion switch interr...