ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,204, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Hardware identity impersonation for target access control" was invented by Samar Asbe (San Diego), Vijayakumar Gopalakrishnan (San Diego) and Ai Li (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for identity impersonation in access control systems. For example, a process for identity impersonation in access control systems can include: receiving, at a hardware identity impersonator from a first access domain, a request to make a target region accessible to a second access domain; updating a second access domain identity data stru...