ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,896, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Power management based on gesture states" was invented by Giovanni M. Agnoli (San Mateo, Calif.), Chendi Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.), Jacob Z. Weiss (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yiqiang Nie (San Francisco) and Brent W. Schorsch (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device implementing a system for power management includes at least one processor configured to, detect first gesture state associated with motion of a device, the first gesture state being associated with meeting a first threshold of device motion, and set, in response to detecting the first...