ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,886, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Lenovo Global Technology (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Preventing unregistered electronic devices from accessing a secure area" was invented by Eric R Kern (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Paola Martinez Morales (Wendell, N.C.), Drew Johnson (Fuquay-Varina, N.C.) and Christopher Scullion (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer program product and a method may include various operations. The operations include receiving, from one or more computing devices, user data identifying a user of the computing device, user device data identifying the computing device, a current locat...