US Patent Issued on Aug. 26 for "Mobile device mode enablement/disablement responsive to sensing a physiological parameter" (North Carolina, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,066, issued on Aug. 26.

"Mobile device mode enablement/disablement responsive to sensing a physiological parameter" was invented by Peter D. Karabinis (Cary, N.C.) and Rajendra Singh (Indian Creek Village, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems/Methods are disclosed of enabling a number of first functions of a device while disabling a second function of the device. According to some embodiments, the device comprises a smartphone. Sensing of a physiological parameter of a user of the device is performed and a determination is made as to whether or not the physiological parameter sensed satisfies a criterion. Responsive to determi...