ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,508, issued on July 29, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).
"Device access control based on detected user state" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Ankur Varshney (Bangalore, India) and Bhashyam Krishnama Naidu Sukumar (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In aspects of device access control based on detected user state, a mobile device has a display device to display visual content for viewing in a secondary user mode of operation of the mobile device. The mobile device implements an access control module to detect a user state of a user accessing the mobile device in the secondary user mo...