ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,668, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Brick LLC (Colgate, Wis.).
"Portable temporary electronic device unlocking device" was invented by Thomas John Killian Driver (Hubertus, Wis.), Zachary Mario Nasgowitz (Colgate, Wis.) and Steve Dinelli (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blocker device changes a configuration of a user smart device by locking certain applications of the user smart device. A temporary unlocking device provides for the user smart device to be temporarily unlocked after the blocker device has locked the user smart device. The user smart device, when disposed within a certain distance of the temporary unlocki...