US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Singapore) on Aug. 12 for "Ultra-wideband-based device use restrictions" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,836, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Ultra-wideband-based device use restrictions" was invented by John Carl Mese (Cary, N.C.) and Philip John Jakes (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an apparatus includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to use an ultra-wideband (UWB) transceiver to determine a current location of a device and to, based on the current location as determined using the UWB transceiver, restrict how the device can be used while the ...