US Patent Issued to Thomas Stachura on March 11 for "Information security/privacy via a decoupled security accessory to an always listening device" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,536, issued on March 11, was assigned to Thomas Stachura (Edmonton, Canada).

"Information security/privacy via a decoupled security accessory to an always listening device" was invented by Xiao Ming Mai (Cranbury, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An always-listening-capable computing device is disclosed, comprising: a first electronic sensor configured to receive user input, a second electronic sensor configured to receive a signal indicating that a user depressed a physical button, a gate-keeping module implemented by a processor, wherein data from the first electronic sensor passes through the gate-keeping module while a gateke...