TP Lab Assigned Patent

TP Lab, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,654,481) developed by Ho, Chi Fai, Palo Alto, CA, for a “location based secure data device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In providing secure data access, a secure data device receives a data access request to access secured data stored in a storage of the secure data device. A location module of the secure data device calculates a current location of the secure data device. A secure data module of the secure data device compares the current location and a pre-stored location stored in the secure data device. Upon determining that the current location matches the pre-stored location, the secure data module retrieves the secure data from the storage and processes the secure data. The processed secure data is sent as available data in response to the data access request. Upon determining that the current location does not match the pre-stored location, the secure data module retrieves the secure data and processes the secure data in a manner that renders the available data unusable.“

The patent application was filed on April 25, 2015 (14/696,379).