US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 16 for "System and methods for waking and locking an information handling system in a multi-user environment" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,194, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and methods for waking and locking an information handling system in a multi-user environment" was invented by Karun P. Reddy (Austin, Texas), Daniel L. Hamlin (Round Rock, Texas), Keith M. Alfano (Manor, Texas), Mandy C. Phelps (Georgetown, Texas) and Banu Alpay Waldman (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems and methods are provided for managing and operating a user presence detection (UPD) capable information handling system (IHS) within a multi-user environment. The systems and methods disclosed herein improve system...