ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,659, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Disablement of device authentication based on user sleep state" was invented by Scott Li (Morrisville, N.C.), Igor Stolbikov (Morrisville, N.C.), Nathan Peterson (Morrisville, N.C.) and Rafael Rodrigues Machado (Morrisville, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an apparatus includes a processor assembly and storage accessible to the processor assembly. The storage includes instructions executable by the processor assembly to receive input from at least one sensor on a first device and to determine, based on the input, that a user is aslee...