ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,222, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus for protection for device data transfers" was invented by Daniel Lee Helmick (Broomfield, Colo.), Jisoo Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Sang Young Ye (Osan-Si, South Korea) and Eric Hibbard (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include a device including a first controller, and a second controller, wherein the device may be configured to receive, using the first controller, data, apply, to the data, a first protection scheme, and send, from the device, using the second controller, the data ...