Patents by Inventor KATHRYN E. SCHMIDT

KATHRYN E. SCHMIDT has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Environmental verification for controlling access to data
    Patent number: 11722903
    Abstract: A system for controlling access to data based on environmental verification can include a physical environment authenticator that receives data characterizing environmental parameters of a node in an environment from a set of environmental sensors. The physical environment authenticator can compare correlated environmental parameters with each other and/or a threshold value. At least a subset of the correlated environmental parameters are based on the data from the set of environmental sensors and grants access to a data if the correlated environmental parameters indicate that the node is operating in an authorized environment and prevents access to the data if the correlated environmental parameters indicates that the node is not operating in an authorized environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven D. Ratts, Brian J. Noe, Kathryn E. Schmidt, Alexander J. Voce, Albert C. Stevens, Michael Scholz
  • ENVIRONMENTAL VERIFICATION FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO DATA
    Publication number: 20220330031
    Abstract: A system for controlling access to data based on environmental verification can include a physical environment authenticator that receives data characterizing environmental parameters of a node in an environment from a set of environmental sensors. The physical environment authenticator can compare correlated environmental parameters with each other and/or a threshold value. At least a subset of the correlated environmental parameters are based on the data from the set of environmental sensors and grants access to a data if the correlated environmental parameters indicate that the node is operating in an authorized environment and prevents access to the data if the correlated environmental parameters indicates that the node is not operating in an authorized environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: STEVEN D. RATTS, BRIAN J. NOE, KATHRYN E. SCHMIDT, ALEXANDER J. VOCE, ALBERT C. STEVENS, MICHAEL SCHOLZ