ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,008, issued on May 6, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Security device" was invented by Henri Verhoeven (Someren, Netherlands), Edwin Schapendonk (Oss, Netherlands), Oswald Moonen (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Matheus Johannus Gerardus Lammers (Nederweert, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example discloses a security device, including: a bulk security capacitance, including a first endpoint and a second endpoint, and having, a first layer including a first set of conductive elements, the first endpoint, and the second endpoint; and a second layer including a second set of conductive elements; wherein the fi...