US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on July 15 for "Hardware-agnostic IoT security" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,146, issued on July 15, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Hardware-agnostic IoT security" was invented by Sumita T. Jonak (San Antonio), Thomas Bret Buckingham (Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas), Darrius M. Jones (San Antonio), Dustin Starr Trimmier (San Antonio) and Soon Fatt Hoo (Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving location data representative of a location of a mobile device of a user. Determining that a scenario is occurring within an Internet-of-Things (IoT) system a...