US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 16 for "Configuring context-based restrictions for a computing device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,318, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Configuring context-based restrictions for a computing device" was invented by Paul W. Salzman (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher G. Skogen (Los Altos, Calif.), David S. Clark (San Jose, Calif.) and Tyler D. Hawkins (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a computing device can restrict the use of another computing device in certain contexts. For example, a parent may wish to use the parent's computing device to restrict her children's use of the children's computing devices while the children are in school while the children sh...