US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Singapore) on Oct. 7 for "Device authentication utilizing sensor trigger areas" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,051, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Device authentication utilizing sensor trigger areas" was invented by Robert J. Kapinos (Durham, N.C.), Scott Li (Cary, N.C.), Robert James Norton Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.) and Russell S. VanBlon (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system and method provide a technique for providing an information handling device with increased access to secure data by detecting the location of an information handling device on a surface in relation to at least one sensor located within the physical surface, and determining that the information handling device is...