ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,691, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).
"Application-initiated input device activation" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India) and Rohit Sisodia (Naperville, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In aspects of application-initiated input device activation, a media server receives a request to stream an application to a display device. The media server activates an input device connected to the display device in response to the request. The media server restricts use of the display device to the input device while the application remains active on the display device."
The patent was filed...