US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 4 for "Protecting against malicious attacks in images" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,127, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Protecting against malicious attacks in images" was invented by Gad Karmi (Davis, Calif.) and Mark Bapst (South Barrington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems are provided for image processing. For instance, a process can include obtaining, from one or more image sensors, an image of an environment. The process can further include detecting a first visual code in the image; decoding the first visual code; verifying safety of contents of the first visual code; determining that the contents of the first visual code contain a uniform resource locat...