US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 8 for "Mode switch for link-based and application-based security operations" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,492, issued on April 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Mode switch for link-based and application-based security operations" was invented by Richard Dominic Wietfeldt (San Diego), Philip Michael Hawkes (Valley Heights, Australia), Jonathan Petit (Wenham, Mass.) and William Whyte (Natick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a plurality of imaging devices in a vehicle includes determining that a change of data security mode is indicated for frames of image data transmitted over a first data communication link, determining whether a sensor management system has sufficient processing capacity to suppor...