ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,786, issued on May 27, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT Corp. (Foxboro, Mass.).
"Secure medium intrusion prevention" was invented by Michael Kenneth Schmidt (St. Charles, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure include a host system comprising an authentication communication medium interface configured to be communicatively coupled to a connected module, a secure communication medium interface, and a controller configured to detect a connection of the connected module to the host system over a physical communication connection, generate an authentication challenge, provide the authentication challenge to th...