US Patent Issued to Sophos on Dec. 16 for "Security against physical keystroke simulation" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,210, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sophos Ltd. (Abingdon, Great Britain).

"Security against physical keystroke simulation" was invented by Alexander Vermaning (Enschede, Netherlands), Ronny Henk Gert Tijink (Hengelo, Netherlands), Mark Willem Loman (Overijssel, Netherlands) and Lute Edwin Engels (Hengelo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes detecting, by a computing device, a request from a macro included in a document file that is open in a software application executing on the computing device, where the macro comprises executable code and where the document file further includes n...