ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,372, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Host-based hardware encryption system" was invented by Michael Bishop (Issaquah, Wash.) and Shawn David Corey (Kenmore, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for encrypting and decrypting data sent to and received from a peripheral device physically coupled to a hardware interface of a user equipment. In some examples, the user equipment may include an encrypting/decryption component that is configured to physically between a hardware interface of the user equipment and the other components of the user equipment. The encrypting/decryption...