ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,965, issued on March 25, was assigned to SOLANA MOBILE INC..

"Mobile device with secure private memory" was invented by Jason Sean Gagne-Keats (Cupertino, Calif.), Wolfgang Wesley Muller (San Francisco), Gary Anderson (San Francisco), Nicholas Franco (San Jose, Calif.) and Jean-Baptiste Charles Theou (Sene, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device can detect an idle state and, in response, initiate an access monitoring function to covertly monitor activity involving a human interaction with the mobile device. The covert monitoring is undetectable by a user of the mobile device. The mobile device can then detect a human ...