ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,397, issued on March 4, was assigned to Musarubra US LLC (Plano, Texas).

"System and method for replay of peripheral device attacks" was invented by John Teddy (Missoula, Mont.), Imityaz Yunus Pathan (Maharashtra, India), Raja Kannan (Bangalore, India), Vinoo Thomas (Tami Nadu, India) and Rajendra Kumar Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a computerized method for emulating processing of a peripheral device including operations of providing an insertion emulation signal to a computing device emulating insertion of the peripheral device to a port of the computing device, intercepting a request f...