ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,017, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Security systems, methods, storage medium for increasing security of devices utilizing a communication channel" was invented by Masood Parvania (Salt Lake City), Jairo Giraldo (Salt Lake City) and Alejandro Palomino (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security system for enhancing security of a device utilizing a communication channel includes one or more processors and a storage including instructions stored thereon. When the instructions are executed by the one or more processors, the instructions cause the security system t...