ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,040, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to VAREX IMAGING Corp. (Salt Lake City).
"Detection of unauthorized components" was invented by Michael Rudolf Meiler (Draper, Utah), Michelle Richmond (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Christopher David Ginzton (Salt Lake City).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a method, comprising: receiving from a first device at a second device, a request for a system identifier (ID) stored on the second device; and determining, by the second device, if the system ID stored on the second device has an empty value; when the system ID stored on the second device does not have the empty value, transmitting,...