ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,658, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"System and method for automatically unlocking electronic devices" was invented by Ping Tong Chu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Chung Chun Wan (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extended-reality device worn by a user may be configured to automatically perform the authentication necessary to unlock a user's device for use. The authentication may include using sensors on the extended-reality device to verify a user's identity. The authentication may further include capturing an image of the user's environment to detect a candidate device to be unlocke...