ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,956, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"User equipment auto-unlock optimization" was invented by Naresh Kumar Chinnathambi Kailasam (Freemont, Calif.), Vasilios E. Anton (San Francisco), Christian Seifert (Bornheim, Germany), Ramanujam Jagannath (Cupertino, Calif.) and Shannon Shih (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is configured to perform a prewarming process, wherein the prewarming process includes concurrently performing a face detection process and an unlock process independent of face detection, determine whether a face detection operation indicates the pre...