ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,655, issued on May 6, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Method of using one device to unlock another device" was invented by Conrad Sauerwald (Mountain View, Calif.), Alexander Ledwith (Santa Cruz, Calif.), John Iarocci (Los Gatos, Calif.), Marc J. Krochmal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wade Benson (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gregory Novick (San Francisco) and Noah Witherspoon (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of unlocking a second device using a first device is disclosed. The method can include: the first device pairing with the second device; establishing a trusted relationship with the second device; authenti...